After releasing the two singles “Where the Bodies are Buried” and “Down For Fun” from upcoming studio album “The Avalanche” out on September 17th, British indie act Liz Lawrence shares her brand new single “Saturated” today.
At the start of summer 2020, Lawrence left London and moved back to her hometown in the West Midlands. She built a studio from scratch with her dad, a carpenter, on the site where her grandfather's garden shed had stood unopened for 20 years. She christened it ‘The Coffin’.
Lawrence has harnessed her on-stage exuberance into a muscular, extroverted record. "I like to dance, and I like to move, and I wanted to make a record that people would move to quite naturally", she says, acknowledging that it marks a shift. "I wanted it to have motion. I think it's quite silly, and it's joyful, and I'm not always sure people expect that from me". The songs are not so personal this time, informed by the world as well as what was going on in her own life. "I think that was a conscious decision. I'm becoming really aware of my own narcissism, and in fact the narcissism all around us". It's a theme Lawrence explored on 2019’s "Pity Party", particularly on the droll single "None Of My Friends", which was written pre-lockdown, but seemed to capture a certain lockdown mood. This time, she wanted to look beyond her own life. "I didn't necessarily want to offer myself in that way again. I can be a real voyeur, and I was interested in what everyone else was doing. This is my Rear Window record".
After releasing 2020’s "Whoosh!" EP, which saw single California Screaming on BBC Radio 1's Introducing playlist and the track Whoosh get Radio 1 plays from Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, Lawrence went back to the studio to put the finishing touches on "The Avalanche". It was partly inspired by the artist Tacita Dean's huge, seven-metre drawing, The Montafon Letter, which refers to a disaster in the Montafon Valley in Austria during the 17th century, in which 300 people were buried. "And a priest went to the site to officiate the burial, and another avalanche buried him, and then finally another avalanche came and unburied the priest", explains Lawrence. The morbid humour of it, and the idea that what destroys us may also save us, appealed to her.
The Avalanche' Tracklisting
- Down For Fun
- Babies
- Drive
- Saturated
- I’ll Go On
- Violent Speed
- Where The Bodies Are Buried
- Simple Pleasures
- Heart Of Gold
- Birds
- The Avalanche