Fairfield County Weekly November 14, 2002by Brita Brundage Singing about Birds (excerpted from an article about Damien Pratt and LG the week of a joint solo show together at Coffee Please in Danbury) Lys Guillorn [...] is best known for her guitar and singing stint in Jargon Society, a four-piece chamber-pop-punk group that mixed guitar and vocals with cello and drums. Delving into her solo material more, Guillorn has uncovered a wealth of songs that blend a country tempo with dark humor. On her self-titled album, she makes a shrine to sparseness, augmenting the really slow, desert-delirium sounds with weird effects and vocals that romance loss and cowboys. "Melancholy is a big part of what I do," Guillorn says, "and it's not such a bad thing. One of my new songs is about a little skeleton that follows me around. That's kind of where the songs come from." [Damien's amazing "Babybird" is mentioned earlier in the article] Whether subliminally, telepathically or just coincidentally, Guillorn also has a song about a bird, "Little Wren," which comes off beautifully thanks to the prevalent darkness that lends weight to her voice. She can sings "open your throat, little wren," without sounding at all cutesy. In fact the song is more hymn-like in its repetition, and she provides her own high melodic harmonies. Many of the tunes have a heroin-like slowness [...] but she can't be accused of being too emotional. It's more like Guillorn has passed through emotional hell to the other side and has now reached a tranquil vista of resignation. She's thinking about her grandfather who "sang cowboy tunes to [her] grandmother when they were courting" and taking her little skeleton by the hand.