New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Veracity means a devotion to the truth, and it is the quintessence of any artist. For 24-year-old songwriter
Lauren Marsh, her record Veracity is a declaration of resilience. It is her oath to remaining excitedly optimistic despite having endured a series of life-threatening events. Marsh has overcome a frightful and hostile stalker, a severe car accident in 2013, a dangerous incident in a parking lot, and then a night in NYC, which ended in the hospital ER when someone deliberately drugged her drink.
But Marsh's story isn't that of a victim. Instead, it is a testament to strength and a persistent spirit: "I refuse to let them define me. They're just events. I am stronger than all of it. They may be part of my story but I will never give anything the power to hold me back or keep me from living fully." So she worked on defeating her lingering anxiety, keeping hold of herself and the actual moments that define her. This is the substance that binds Veracity together, that no experience or event can diminish the value, strength, or brilliance of a person. By sharing her story, Marsh hopes that it might give hope and strength to others.
Marsh's music is her driving force. Ever since she greeted family and friends with full renditions of Jewel's "Pieces of You", on her karaoke machine at age four, music has been her solace and her means of communication; the raw clarity in the blur that is life. Around the same time, Marsh began making up her own melodies in her head; not realizing this was something that made her different.
By age 14, Marsh was writing full songs, combining her melodies with poems she'd been inscribing in notebooks for years.
Music was a way of channelling her emotions and revealing things she had trouble expressing in person. Instead of telling someone how she felt, Marsh would record a song on a tape recorder and leave it for someone to listen to like a private message. Soon enough Marsh found her voice and was travelling anywhere and everywhere to perform live, even if it meant rolling her duct taped keyboard in a shopping cart to get there.
Marsh's early loves were the unusual bedfellows of jazz and heavy rock, yielding her initial compositions as the sprawling creations of
Pink Floyd fronted by Ella Fitzgerald. It was Ella that then sparked the discovery of Marsh's own artistic vision. By taking standards like "How High the Moon" and making something new and astonishing from them, Ella's work embodied true innovative imagination; giving more than just life to a song. And so it was that early records, Ready for
Takeoff and The Incurable Heart, combined driving rock-like pianos and guitars with jazz enthused vocals to illuminate Marsh's ups and downs.
Veracity is something different. A stirring collection of atmospheric indie-pop tunes, relying on synth and FX as they do ukulele and keyboard, Veracity is a testimony to leaving the past behind and choosing to live fully without holding back. Reflecting on the initial pursuits of this record, Marsh states, "I didn't want to be concerned with what might be expected from me. I really gave myself a clean slate with one goal in mind: to flesh out exactly how I was feeling in my songs." Recorded at Portrait Recording Studios in Pompton Plains, NJ with Producer, Chris Badami, Veracity contains the best representation of Marsh's infectious, yet meaningful songwriting to date. Within these songs are Marsh's innate truths, her moral code and the statements she lives by. This is an oath to not letting the past define you and never giving up on love; the veracity of Marsh's spirit is stronger than any kind of storm.Lead and second paragraph.
Praise for
Lauren Marsh:
"After speaking with
Lauren Marsh, it was hard to believe that I was interviewing an up-and-coming star. Our conversation was very natural and
Lauren couldn't have been more down to earth." —Limerence Magazine
"This is an artist that pours all of her energy into her songs." —TalentWatch.net
"Flawlessly talented & using her voice to tell the stories of her life,
Lauren has found and claimed something she loves." —Real Woman Magazine
