Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry reveals release date for debut solo album Vicious Creature
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Lauren Mayberry has shared the release date for her first solo album. Vicious Creature is set for release on 6th December via EMI. The twelve-track record will include previously-released tracks including ‘Are You Awake?’, which launched her solo career last year.
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Hide AdThe album, which you can pre-order here, will also include more recent tracks ‘Shame’, ‘Change Shapes’ and ‘Something in the Air’, which was released earlier this month.
“So much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition – something I really trained myself out of,” Lauren has said, in a press release. “That’s ultimately why you start making things – because you felt a feeling, and you wanted to articulate that somehow. I think it was important for me to relearn that kind of independence, and recognise what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.”
Today, Lauren has also shared another new track from the record in the form of ‘Crocodile Tears’, a song written with Matthew Koma and Ethan Gruska, which sees Mayberry take on “a sort of character where I could really let go of the idea that I need to be ‘nice,’ because I think that holds so many women back in their lives,” she explains. “If I didn’t have to be seen as ‘nice,’ I would feel comfortable telling certain people to f*** off when they treat me like s*** – on this record, and in these songs, I get to do that.”
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Hide AdLauren Mayberry was born in Stirling and went to school in Bridge of Allen before studying at Strathclyde University, gaining a Law degree and, subsequently, a Masters in Journalism. After becoming part of the Glasgow music scene with local bands, she forming Chvrches with fellow Strathclyde alumni, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty.
The band has released four albums, all of which have reached the UK top 10 and the top 40 of the US Billboard 200, and she released two solo singles in 2023. Chvrches have had prominent billing at several of the world’s leading music festivals, including Glastonbury, Coachella, SXSW, Reading and Leeds, T in the Park and Lollapalooza.
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