New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Lauryn Peacock announces the release of her charming orchestral indie folk album, Euphonia, on June 26, which was recorded with orchestral arranger and director, Joshua Stamper, and mixed by
Daniel Smith (Sufjan Stevens). An undertone of delicate vulnerability is delivered with a strength and measured veracity through graceful orchestration and experimentation, simultaneously expressing curiosity and wisdom.
In the exploration of her own slant truths, Lauryn Peacock holds fast to Emily Dickinson's admonition to "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," enabling her to delve into places of true vulnerability that make her music both captivatingly complex and approachably intimate. Nowhere in her music is this captivating intimacy more evident than on her upcoming full-length album Euphonia - a reflection of her continuing journey to find solace through music, and peace within the joys and hardships of life - and to motivate others to do the same.
For Peacock, it was a winding path that led her to this forthcoming release: a batch of songs informed by a wide variety of experiences - some extremely life-giving, others challenging to the core. Through the making of Euphonia Peacock fought through extreme health issues, which were left unexplained for 15 months before Peacock would have any clarity. It was this experience of not feeling like herself and not knowing what may be affecting her that Peacock lived the vulnerable line she sings in "February Song," admitting to the experience we all have at times in being human: 'Sometimes I feel like an outlaw in my own skin.' These challenges however did not stop her but instead enhanced the emotive beauty and ultimate surrender found on Euphonia. Down to the last detail, there is an intentionality to every syllable and note.
Set to a meditative waltz, the lead single, "Wounds Grow Grass," serves as a metaphor for being in process and healing. "Just as the earth incorporates all that falls to its surface and generates new life, or the way grass grows over a place of burial, the earth heals itself and so do we," Peacock says, "Sometimes we have to dig some things up - or they come up naturally - but the wound always heals, especially when we look at those unearthed things head on."
About Lauryn Peacock
Lauryn Peacock has played with
Jeff Tweedy of
Wilco - on piano, guitar, and some 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), which also features vocals 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.
