LAURA JEAN’S
reveals new single and video
‘GIRLS ON THE TV’
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“’Devotion’ is about how a lonely coastal childhood filters into a contemporary
adult life built hundreds of miles away. I wrote this album for my mum, middle
sister and myself as we were at that time – eccentric, romantically-unfulfilled
teens and a stressed-out single mum trying to have a love life.”
Laura Jean
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Melbourne artist Laura Jean has shared ‘Girls On The TV’ the next single from her forthcoming LP Devotion, which sees the acclaimed folk auteur dipping into synth-pop terrain. The track premiered overnight at US taste-makers Gorilla Vs. Bear, who hailed ‘Girls On The TV as “a beautiful and casually profound expression of Laura Jean’s tender, heartwarming capacity for empathy and compassion.”
Laura announced Devotion with ‘Touchstone’, a whimsical new-age oddity that earned Lorde’s seal of approval, who wrote eloquently about her love for the single on her Twitter. New single and video ‘Girls On The TV’ is a spectral pop marvel, conveying Jean’s emotive ability to get to the heart of teenage experience, whilst the shimmering visual, embellished in an 80s pop sensibility, sees the real “Girls On The TV” channel a strong, queen-like energy to inspire a young girl to her feet.
“I see myself as the narrator, an ordinary woman wearing a shiny pink Dreamcoat that signifies it’s my turn to tell a story. It doesn’t matter that my story is ordinary, what matters is that I tell my story with hard-earned skill and loving sincerity. I want to show that the everyday story of a girl is important, and that seemingly inconsequential events in a girl’s life can have a huge effect on her.” says Laura Jean.
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. . . . . . . . amnplify EHCritically acclaimed for her piercing and intimate albums, Laura has worked with producer John Lee on Devotion (Beaches, Lost Animal) to create an enveloping album, singular in its vision and scope. Laura’s previous release, her self-titled 2014 LP, was recorded in the UK with John Parish (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey) and featured Norwegian avant-gardist Jenny Hval throughout on backing vocals. On her latest release, Laura found herself tinkering with a 90s Kawai keyboard, enjoying its built-in drum rhythms and a crystalline synth sound. She began a series of shows performing with nothing but the keyboard, as the idea for her next album began to take shape.
Written to chronicle the vivid memory of teenage obsession filtered through Laura’s razor sharp lyrical focus, initial influences for the record took in contemporary R’n’B, 80s pop and 70s disco, but the end result is transformed into something wholly other, creating a delicate and dreamlike world. Played entirely by Laura, John Lee and Augie March drummer Dave Williams, Devotion is both contemporary and timeless in its impressionistic portrait of the purity and endless wonder associated with adolescence.
PRAISE FOR ‘TOUCHSTONE’
“Maybe the sharpest communication of the spooky,
all-consuming nature of feminine love I’ve ever seen.”
Lorde“It consumes you in one swoop with twitchy guitar lines and
deep, playful percussion, like a wave to shore,
where the sea is as silvery as the sky.”
The Quietus“Magical.”
The Line of Best Fit“Built around synths that sound like they were
found in Suzanne Ciani’s archive.”
Noisey
Laura Jean
Devotion1. Press Play
2. Devotion
3. Girls On the TV
4. Lick Your Heart
5. Northerly
6. Which One Are You
7. Telecommunication
8. Touchstone
9. Take Me There
10. You Make Me FeelDevotion by Laura Jean is out Friday, June 8 on Chapter Music via Inertia Music
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