Lauren Mayberry today releases her new single “Something In The Air”, which is available to stream and download now. The song is lifted from her highly anticipated debut solo album Vicious Creature, due for release later this year via Island Records.
“‘Something In The Air’ is a song that really came out of nowhere,” explains Lauren. “I was in London finishing another song with my friend, co-writer and producer Dan McDougall. We were taking a break in the shared kitchen in the studio complex when a pretty iconic British musician, who I won’t throw under the bus here, came in and started making conversation about electricity, 5G and how it’s making us all sick. Dan and I went for a walk around the block before going back to the studio and were unpacking those theories, and why people want to believe them – and the chorus lyric just appeared.”
Lauren Mayberry has been in bands since she was 15. The most notable of those, CHVRCHES, has so far seen more than 1.7 billion global streams to date; and a string of awards and nominations including the SXSW Grulke Prize, NME, and BRIT awards.
Vicious Creature is both a startling new era in Lauren Mayberry’s artistry, and the culmination of two decades of the band life that came before. Across its songs she writes about sexuality and empowerment from a profoundly personal perspective for the very first time, reconnecting with the icons of her youth in Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey and Kathleen Hanna, and with the influence of 90s British girl groups like All Saints and Sugababes.
In discovering who she is as a solo artist, she has accessed a new world of inspiration, and a deep well of creativity she’s had within her all along.
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