Lauryn Peacock

Lauryn Peacock2021-01-08T21:29:54+00:00

Project Description

Similar Artists: Marissa Nadler, Laura Gibson, Emily Jane White

Faced with a global pandemic while working on her third masters (an MFA in poetry at New York University), Lauryn Peacock found a way to record her third full-length. The result is a both in-your-face and often subtly beautiful and arty manifesto, Theology, and two irresistible, pop-infused singles to be released on a 7” called Quarantine Love. Much of this work was written during a summer in France pursuing her second masters, this one in theology (gender, sexuality, art, religion, and culture) at Vanderbilt’s liberal and social justice focused Divinity School. Peacock came to this with a deep concern over issues of racial and socioeconomic equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the distortion of religion in the unfortunate name of bigotry. The songs on Peacock’s forthcoming album and EP cover everything from environmentalism, gay conversion therapy, poverty and how well we (don’t) deal with it, love and breakups and relationships, and the human experience of lament and joy.  

 Lauryn Peacock is a storyteller, a creative writer, a poet — a writer’s writer and a musician’s musician. Peacock says, “Nashville, perhaps more than any other place, has made me appreciate the simple song form and increased my desire to communicate more clearly in my music.” She has been compared to both Laurie Anderson and Sara Bareilles. Peacock was born in Illinois and spent her childhood between the Chicago and San Francisco areas. She started her official journey into music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, made waves in Philadelphia, and now resides in Nashville, TN. Peacock is known for her maverick keys, quick hand on the electric and acoustic guitar, her soaring yet intimate lilting vocals, and her heartfelt, sharp writing. 

RELEASES

“Coming Over Me Again”
Release Date: December 4, 2020
Lauryn Peacock - Coming Over Me Again
“brings a kaleidoscope of vantages and experiences” – Audiofemme

 Lauryn Peacock announces her first single in five years, “Coming Over Me Again”. Peacock wrote the song during the height of quarantine. She says, “All the time alone left me able to think, to really dig into some great memories. At times, they felt embodied, like I was being visited.” An intentional 90s production style captures the hint of nostalgia with vocals tucked into the music in a way that makes you want to turn the song up and up. Read more

Bio

Faced with a global pandemic while working on her third masters (an MFA in poetry at New York University), Lauryn Peacock found a way to record her third full-length. The result is a both in-your-face and often subtly beautiful and arty manifesto, Theology, and two irresistible, pop-infused singles to be released on a 7” called Quarantine Love. Much of this work was written during a summer in France pursuing her second masters, this one in theology (gender, sexuality, art, religion, and culture) at Vanderbilt’s liberal and social justice focused Divinity School. Peacock came to this with a deep concern over issues of racial and socioeconomic equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the distortion of religion in the unfortunate name of bigotry. The songs on Peacock’s forthcoming album and EP cover everything from environmentalism, gay conversion therapy, poverty and how well we (don’t) deal with it, love and breakups and relationships, and the human experience of lament and joy.  

Lauryn Peacock is a storyteller, a creative writer, a poet -- a writer's writer and a musician's musician. Peacock says, "Nashville, perhaps more than any other place, has made me appreciate the simple song form and increased my desire to communicate more clearly in my music." She has been compared to both Laurie Anderson and Sara Bareilles. Peacock was born in Illinois and spent her childhood between the Chicago and San Francisco areas. She started her official journey into music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, made waves in Philadelphia, and now resides in Nashville, TN. Peacock is known for her maverick keys, quick hand on the electric and acoustic guitar, her soaring yet intimate lilting vocals, and her heartfelt, sharp writing. 

 Peacock rounds out her classical training in piano that reaches back into the beginnings of her childhood with 18 years of ballet and French. She toured the East Coast playing synth and organ for Philadelphia’s mewithoutYou and had the opportunity to play with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy during two house concerts for charity. On her first records she worked with Daniel Smith (Sufjan Stevens, Danielson Family) as well as collaborated with Denison Witmer (Asthmatic Kitty Records) and composer Joshua Stamper (Sufjan Stevens, National Endowment for the Arts). This all led to WXPN proclaiming: “Lauryn Peacock has the range of a musician who’s been playing her whole life.” 

Peacock’s most recent work has included quarantining, many face masks, and recording to tape with a whole lot of heart. She has laid down her hardest-hitting record - reminiscent of Nico and at times the Velvet Underground - in the space where Alabama Shakes created their breakthrough effort, with co-producer Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Josephine Foster) and a band rich with guitarist JJ from the Deslondes, bassist Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather fame, Molly Parden (Andrew Combs, Faye Webster, Liza Anne), and Meg Coleman, known for her other-worldly drum sound. 

Peacock hopes this work, which encapsulates the many roads she has lived in recent years, brings the hope, catharsis, and peace emblematic of truly honest and engaged art to her listeners, in these uncertain and unpredictably anticipatory times.   

 

"Plenty of singer-songwriters draw on their classical influences to churn out pretty pop songs with little depth, and we’ve all known sonic explorers who chase weird for weird’s sake. But this was something far rarer: An artist who could write something beautiful and not be afraid to chop it up to reveal its jagged angles."

MJ Fine, NJ Courier Post

"The entire album is an ever-churning aesthetic marvel with a fluid spirit that mirrors life, itself....Lauryn has created a rich and vibrant wilderness of organic beauty and poetry for the listener to explore while wearing the wide-eyed expression of perpetual awe and wonder."

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ear to the ground

"Up-and-comer but soon to be established Lauryn Peacock released her charming orchestral indie- folk album Euphonia....[which] illustrates just how many different instruments Peacock works with- and works with successfully- throughout all tracks."

Greg Jones, Ear to the Ground
Songwriting Magazine

"‘Euphonia’, the new album from singer-songwriter Lauryn Peacock puts her mastery of arrangement and vivid songwriting to the very fore....Often experimental, always timeless, each of the ten tracks is brimming with originality and ideas....It is an album in the truest sense, a beautiful soundtrack to guide you through life’s maddening challenges."

Duncan Haskell, Songwriting Magazine