New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Lauryn Peacock releases the indie folk single "Quiet Moments" off her upcoming album Euphonia, due out June 26, 2015. The album incorporates orchestral arrangements by Joshua Stamper and is mixed by
Daniel Smith (Sufjan Stevens). The new single balances vulnerability with measured veracity, delivered via graceful orchestration, sonic experimentation, and unrepentantly joyful choruses.
"Quiet Moments" opens with a simple grand piano pattern and develops into a well-orchestrated tapestry of strings, electric guitar, synth and giant choruses. Mix this with Peacock's deeply emotional lyrics and you have an uplifting song that shines "Hope in the face of just the mess of life and relationships," as Peacock puts it: "It's about Joy in the sorrow - of life not working out exactly how we think it will in every situation. Sometimes what we end up with, if we engage it right, is better than anything that could have been, without the struggle." The song states it well: "We will all be carried through, through the night of me and you."
About Lauryn Peacock
Lauryn Peacock has played with
Jeff Tweedy of
Wilco - on piano, guitar, and vocals. She toured, playing keys, with indie-rockers mewithoutYou, who also backed her up on her first full length effort: Keep it
Simple Let the Sun Come Out (2011) -- also featuring BGV's from Denison Witmer (Asthmatic Kitty). Peacock worked with
Daniel Smith (Danielson) on all three of her releases, including her B-sides Fairly Busy Wife EP (2012). She also embarked on, and completed, a Master of Liberal Arts at UPenn with a focus on the pedagogical nature of Bob Dylan's work to the 60s Civil Rights movement and the pedagogical nature of the arts to culture in general (with a few electives in music theory). She added all of this to the existing Creative Writing degree which is evident in her lyrics.
Tour Dates
06/27/15 Mad Donna's Loft Nashville, TN
07/03/15 Audiofeed
Music Festival Urbana, IL
08/09/15 The Frequency Madison, WI
Euphonia
Release Date: June 26, 2015
All My Mind
February Song
Six Month Quandary
Nuage
Weighted
Wounds Grow Grass
Quiet Moments
Pluie (Rain / Interlude 3)
Hearts on Fire
Song in C Up North
Praise for Lauryn Peacock
"Singer-songwriter Lauryn Peacock has the range of a musician who has been playing her whole life."
Lauren Thomas - WXPN
"Postmodern and premodern at once, the orchestral, piano-based ballad "Wounds Grow Grass" by Lauryn Peacock waltzes out of a wine-warmed cabaret from Berlin in the 1920s or maybe from just around the corner here and now." —KDHX
"...with the plaintive, haunting single "Wounds Grow Grass" offering a tantalizing glimpse into the rich and highly orchestrated universe Peacock has spent the so much time and energy constructing."—The Deli Magazine Nashville
