Elvis Orbison Brett Lyda Pasadena It’s humid. There are hundreds of mosquitoes taking samples of you. The water flows languidly, almost tumbling over itself in heaps. Even the grass is despondent. What can you do? If you’re Brett Lyda, aka Elvis Orbison and the singer-songwriter for Soft Surfaces, you wait. Patiently. Sooner or later something will move, letting you know it’s time. Time to move your index finger from the B string to the G. Then you wait some more. There’s no hurry. You want to make sure it feels just right. And just right is just how Invisible Me feels. Like love: unplanned, serendipitous. It just feels...good, I’m guessing, is the word Mr. Lyda is thinking, in the gorgeously sleepy "Friend Like Me". But of course it need not be said. The feeling is all over this record. Even in the sad numbers, the implication is that all is well, or at least as it should be. I think it’s safe to say that Elvis Orbison lives up to its name, at least on a genealogical level. Using a moniker scoured from the remains of a John Lennon interview, Mr. Lyda has performed no small feat of alchemy in combining his father’s and mother’s (respectively) two favorite singers in a quip coined by a member of his own all-time favorite group. Elvis Orbison’s tracks Feet Don't Fail Me (w/ Alanna Lin of Fascinoma) (2014) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-03-01T22:52:49Z West S (Circa 1969) (2011) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T08:05:10Z Like Perfume (2010) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T07:56:52Z Chung King Summer (w/ Alanna Lin of Fascinoma) (2013) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T07:48:20Z Neptina (2012) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T07:46:14Z Mei Lana (2013) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T07:43:10Z Drowning With The Band (2010) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T07:31:20Z You're The S#!t 2 Me (Alternate Version)(2009) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T04:37:48Z
Feet Don't Fail Me (w/ Alanna Lin of Fascinoma) (2014) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-03-01T22:52:49Z
Chung King Summer (w/ Alanna Lin of Fascinoma) (2013) by Elvis Orbison published on 2014-02-26T07:48:20Z