Ahead of two shows at The Great Escape Festival on Friday 17th May, Liz Lawrence shares new single No One. Her new album Peanuts is released on 7th June on Chrysalis Records. She will play various dates throughout the summer, including a series of in-store performances in June and a DJ set at her album launch party at Signature Brew in London on the 5th, before heading out on a headline tour of the UK in November.
No One is, according to Lawrence, an “ode to failure, it’s about learning to love my inner loser and just letting it all go. I’m bored and tired of the hustle, the pressure to make every moment count. Capitalism’s need for constant growth is making us all sad.”
Themes of crumbling communities, loss of public spaces, a country “gone to shit” and a deep desire for reconnection to ourselves, our planet and nature weave through Peanuts, an album of Protest Songs for an England on the cusp of a general election. “We are disconnecting from each other at a time when we've never needed connection more,” Lawrence says. “I am afraid that we're losing physical spaces, and community spaces, and a sense of us all being together. More than ever, I think we have to rally against that loss."
Last month, Lawrence shared Strut and launched her ‘Big British Pub Crawl’ - enlisting the help of her fans to nominate their favourite local pub. “It’s about going out-out and feeling yourself,” Lawrence says, “the importance of leaving your house and interacting with other people, and a use it or lose it mentality that I’m trying to foster when thinking about local physical spaces.”
In March, Lawrence played a sold out show at The Lexington and shared lead single, and album opener, Big Machine, which was playlisted at BBC 6 Music and received radio support from Radio 1’s Clara Amfo, 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne, Chris Hawkins and Huw Stephens, and Radio X’s John Kennedy.
Wanting the new record “to have been touched by someone other than myself," Lawrence teamed up with producer Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Yard Act, Aldous Harding). "I messaged him, saying I wanted to make a record that sounded like Cate Le Bon meets Primal Scream, or Beck meets Gorillaz," she says. "And he was into it." Lawrence recorded the album at Chant's studio in Bristol, over two weeks.
‘Peanuts’ is released on 7th June on Chrysalis Records.
TRACKLISTING
1. Big Machine
2.Names Of Plants And Animals
3. No One
4. That’s Life
5. Oars
6. No Worries If Not
7. Strut
8. Nitrogen
9. S.U.R.V.I.V.E
10. On Loss And Overcoming Despair
11. Top Level Joy
LIVE DATES
7 May - Koko (supporting Camera Obscura) - London
17 May - The Great Escape - Brighton
- 3:30pm @ Alphabet
- 11:30pm @ The Bright Helm Centre
18 May - Get Together Festival - Sheffield
5 June - Album Launch @ Signature Brew - London
7th June - In-Store - Resident - Brighton
8th June - In-Store - Rough Trade - Bristol
10th June - In-Store - Rough Trade East - London
11th June - In-Store - Jumbo Records - Leeds
12th June - In-Store - Rough Trade - Liverpool
13th June - In-Store - Banquet Records - Kingston
12 July - Alexandra Palace Park (supporting Bombay Bicycle
Club) - London
26 July - Deer Shed Festival - Topcliffe
6 November - The Grand - Dublin
8 November - YES (The Pink Room) - Manchester
9 November - Room 2 - Glasgow
10 November - The Grove - Newcastle Upon Tyne
12 November - Brighton - Komedia
13 November - Clwb Ifor Bach - Cardiff
14 November - Strange Brew - Bristol
16 November - The Jericho Tavern - Oxford
17 November - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds
19 November - London - Koko
