Mixerr Album Reviews #997

This is Michael Mixerr. I will review Lisa Tingle - In The Water.

Folk artist Lisa Tingle releases a calm mellowing album timid in nature and sultry in songwriting. In The Water showcases some of her most advanced songwriting skills. The instrumentation arrangements and rhythm selection has a more progressed polished sound too. A portion of live instrumentation was used on this album to match the rhythm selection. More musicians contributed to this album a lot more than her last album. Carl Thiel produced a majority of this album.


Lisa Tingle gets person, sentimental, and biographical on Get Thru You as she describes her memories to us in songwriting. She tells us tales of her suffering through her hard times. Her childhood story is filled with hard times, trauma, and adventures waiting to be told.

At the tender age of 15, Lisa had somehow contracted mono. Mono is a contracted disease that can prove to be deadly. This mono eventually led her to catching pneumonia twice. Lisa encountered trauma during the hard times of childhood. She learned to defend herself during childhood. If she can make it through, you can make it through. (When you make the effort, best intentions are always good.) It’s obvious that Lisa grew up in a troubled environment being that she lived in a rough neighborhood. Lisa Tingle never asked for your opinion or consulted your for advice. She made it on her own.


Lisa goes gun crazy on the Gun Song. We are taken on an adventure with Lisa through her songwriting and lyrics. This adventure ends being rather long. Gun Song shows that her songwriting has clearly improved since the last album. She takes on an adventure with her lover.

Lisa is a nun who is escaping from the United States into Mexico. Never did Lisa think she was a criminal until she had a look at her lovers gun. We now find ourselves sneaking across the United States-Mexico border crossing into Mexico with Lisa and her lover. The Federales have been flipped off. Lisa was a nun until he dirtied up her mind with impure perverse thoughts. She left her religion behind her. Lisa was flirting with the busboy because he looked cute. Now we are included into a high-speed chase after the lover did to the busboy. Lisa jumped out of the car and he fell of a cliff like a rocketship. The only thing left the police officers found was a tiny piece of his gun.


She suffers a mental breakdown on Breakdown. Lisa is having a breakdown because she can’t pay her taxes. Everyone needs a meltdown once in a while. Lisa breaks down in singing and songwriting in her own lyrics.

Can You Help Me? is a short sweet song about a girl asking for assistance. She truly has noting to show for her persistence. Can You Help Me? is a song of persistence. Many questions are asked by the girl in this song. These questions have yet to be answered.

Lisa Tingle never asked for your opinion or consulted your for advice when it came to Leave Me Alone as she makes it clear that she wants to be left alone. You don’t have to think twice to see inside her struggling with her internal struggle. Her internal struggles bother very deeply. She can’t get it out of her head. She needs time to be alone. Leave Me Alone is one long song.

I rate this album, In The Water, 3/5***.