The new album from the Infidels isn’t the only new music coming from the band.
A few weeks after the record comes out this Friday, Dave Lisko – singer and guitarist for the band – will drop his first solo album, “Spiders & the Sun.”
The 12 songs on the release were recorded with the help of his bandmates and a few other Youngstown area musicians, including Ed Davis, Tim Gilliland, Chris Leonardi, Sandy Naples, Jackie Popovec, Don Yallech and Amy Young.
The album, which will be available Sept. 5, features music Lisko wrote largely during the pandemic.
“I’m very proud of this,” he said. “Some of the songs felt like Infidels songs to me, and there were a bunch that didn’t. But I thought It would be fun to make a record with musicians that I respect but haven’t played with before – or maybe I had – and just see what comes out of it.”
The project started after Lisko sent demos of his new songs to his longtime friend and fellow artist Leonardi (Slackjaw, Dopamine) to see what he thought.
Leonardi loved the songs and encouraged him to record them. From there, things took off.
“It kind of turned into a project of, ‘I know all these really talented, really cool people that I haven’t had much chance, if any chance, to record with, and that would be a lot of fun to do,’” Lisko said.
“I’d send them the demos with the idea of, this is not set in stone. Add to it what you like, your color and your taste and your flair. … It turned out really good.”
Lisko is already planning a second solo album using the same concept of filtering his songs through the minds of his musician friends.
“It’s going to be fun to see what turns out,” he said.
Pictured at top: The album jacket for Dave Lisko’s upcoming solo album.