Lisa Prank

Lisa Prank functions as the lo-fi pop-punk outlet for Seattle singer/songwriter Robin Edwards. Taking cues from the unfiltered style of acts like Tiger Trap and Cub while reserving ample space for inward-looking lyrics on love gained and relinquished, the endeavor began as a solitary venture driven by a drum machine. Over time she broadened her palette, culminating in the full-band statement Perfect Love Song from 2019, overseen by Tiger Trap’s Rose Melberg, yet the direct emotional address and unadorned melodies stayed constant.

Once Lust-Cats of the Gutters dissolved, Edwards tested a solo configuration that paired live guitar with a Roland MC-505 drum machine. Starting from her native Denver, Colorado, she accepted an invitation from Tacocat associates to settle in Seattle, where That Summer Feeling Records issued her initial Lisa Prank cassette, 2014’s Crush on the World. The five-track set, recorded in the spare manner she labeled “Trapper Keeper pop punk,” included original material alongside a version of blink-182’s “Dammit (Growing Up).” Subsequent road work with Tacocat, Waxahatchee, and Childbirth preceded her 2016 signing to Father/Daughter Records. She tracked the debut album at home, enlisting Tacocat’s Eric Randall for bass, drums, and guitar on several numbers; fellow members Bree McKenna and Emily Nokes contributed as well, joined by Chastity Belt’s Julia Shapiro. The resulting Adult Teen, steeped in punk energy and romantic disillusion, appeared in June 2016.

That same year Edwards united with McKenna and Shapiro to launch Who Is She?, whose Seattle Gossip surfaced in October 2017.

She assembled the follow-up Lisa Prank album amid personal upheaval and relocation. After a breakup she returned to her former room inside a Seattle punk house and resumed songwriting, periodically consulting neighbor McKenna before inviting her to perform on the record. Edwards replaced the drum machine with Tom Fitzgibbon on acoustic drums and recruited indie-pop figure Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, the Softies) to produce, with Melberg also supplying occasional guitar and backing vocals across the candid, resolutely somber punk songs and ballads that formed Perfect Love Song, released by Father/Daughter in October 2019.