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Lex Land

So may we not nestle safely in a darkened drawer?

About Me

In the aural world, a certain type of voice can provide comfort to steer the soul. Enter Lex Land, a distinct voice brimming with lyrical prose and melody. This songstress has carved a footing for herself with a story-telling manner in her songs, coupled with a profound set of vocal chords.
Lex began her life in a somewhat nomadic manner, traversing the High Sierra and sparkling coast of Southern California. In her pre-teen years, she resided amongst the beach towns of Orange County where she developed aspirations to one day become a full lyric soprano. Meanwhile, Lex discovered the guitar and started writing songs, incorporating a unique style of finger picking and rhythm. Although her disciplined study of voice and concert music was an excellent catalyst to her innate talent, the rigid confines of classical study was soon to become a hard-edged dream in her past.
After spending almost two years at Chapman University, where she continued her voice and music education, she sensed that her college experience had perhaps run its course. At age 19, Land had a chance meeting with producer Shannon Edgar at one of her performances in Fullerton, CA. Edgar had previously heard some of her bedroom demos, and immediately wanted to help this floundering up-and-comer flourish.
After months of train rides between her then hometown, the city of Orange, and Los Angeles, the time came to head into Ocean Studios in Burbank, CA to begin the recording process. Those sessions blossomed into what is now her debut album, “Orange Days on Lemon Street.” The title was coined after the period of time in which Lex penned the songs for the record while living in Orange, on a street duly named “Lemon”.
Within Land’s distinct vocals, you may hear the ghost of Judy Garland whispering velvety and soft, or the roar of a mistreated lioness. Her voice is versatile yet familiar, but her sound is all her own.
At the current age of 21, the now LA-based, genre-hopping songwriter has reinvented the art of confessional songwriting and embroidered it with a purer, uncontrived disposition. On ODOLS, Land articulates sentiments from the preemptive knowledge of heartbreak to missing a parent, and her words resonate with a truth that lures the listener into her world.
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Member Since: 12/31/2004
Band Website: lexland.net
Band Members: Miss Land and a few other pretty cool cats that know what they’re doin’.
Influences: scaffolding, prisms, ferris wheels, train whistles, rock biographies, snowflakes, herbs, casette tapes, cool temperatures, 40's chanteuses/chanteurs, records spinning, stitches, outlandish mythologies, authenticity/sincerty, etymology, The Twinkle Light Movement, milk-clouds in coffee, Jeff Buckley's cafe days and Miss Holiday's gardenias, nomadic tendencies, immediacy/spontaneity/impulsion, the vibration of the subway pummeling through the underground, nostalgia, steam coming off peppermint/chamomile tea, windy days ending, the sound and feel of sand in the bottom of heavy duty scotch-tape dispensers, and nights drinking and staying up late with my friends.

Sounds Like: "If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." - Lady Day
Record Label: Intelligent Noise Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ode to a former friend.

i know i hurt you deep but right before i fall asleepi see you at the end of a hallwayi just keep walking on the other way, despite you callin’ me to stayit’s a new thingand i know i kille...
Posted by Lex Land on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:54:00 PST

The 27 Club

Dated Jan.23rd. Perhaps in futurememoria.Rainy days are for reflection, but the fates demand an interjectionmy friends and I all nearing 27, and all claiming to fit the bill ...but if we're coming dow...
Posted by Lex Land on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

i said id never want to write you out, but ...

it's funny how these feelings are almost finally deadand i can only now articulate what's been going through my headover the past couple years that i've been without himand my once vivid mem'ries are ...
Posted by Lex Land on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:40:00 PST

When Will a Sun Come Out?

if you find i didn't listen, please just tell me againand know that i'll do anything i might have to for my friendsand if you feel my world begin to revolve 'round youit's the brightest it's ever been...
Posted by Lex Land on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:51:00 PST

Dont Fight Me

as if i could have known that your big brown eyesnever changed their sentiment or shape when you lieas if i could've seen through your sweet deceitfrom my groveling at your feet! don't fight me now, b...
Posted by Lex Land on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:28:00 PST

half-forgotten love song

if you were here i might not be moved to sing about how much i miss you when you're gone, when you're gone so i'm dropping you an interstate line, and i hope you'll sing along   there are stretch...
Posted by Lex Land on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:22:00 PST

If You Hear Me Call, Please Come Running

If you come to my window tonighti'll throw you a star to create morning lightdon't bother to worry about letting me downi'm sure things will start to turn aroundif you appear on my doorstep todayi'm s...
Posted by Lex Land on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:41:00 PST

Hollywood Blues (((Belated)))

you'd fit in real well herebut you'd miss your mamaand you're too scared of what's outsideof what can be seen with both your eyesand you'd like the crazies herecause they're not so far fromwhere you a...
Posted by Lex Land on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:32:00 PST

No Thanks, Lover (((Belated)))

don't squint at the sun, baby, you're made of itand your heat will never diesomething i'd love to trust but couldn't quite take itgrew tired of sorting out liesi think you need some time to yourself, ...
Posted by Lex Land on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:28:00 PST

all this talk of dreaming is fine and sweet

can't you see you've used my own key on meand i'm slowly dying right to leftwhen you're sleeping deeply enoughdo you ever find me in our rest?cause reading your past tense feelingsis making me a bit t...
Posted by Lex Land on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:01:00 PST