Lia Ices intrigued us (a lot) since we saw the video embedded under this blog entry a few months ago. Sometimes words can’t really add much to a beautiful song – and images. In that blog entry we mentioned that if this lady has a good live show she would become big within a year – and, well, the news is that she is actually amazing live. Somebody else in the meantime realized about this and signed her to Secretly Canadian. We saw her at Pianos on Thursday in a packed room – Lia delivered her mellow, intense alt-folk with absolute flair. One of our CMJ 2010 "winners".