Laura Wolf

 ‘ARTIFACTS' OUT 11/12 VIA WHATEVER'S CLEVER RECORDS

Artifacts is an intricate chamber-pop collage of sound design, orchestral fragments, and vocals.  The long-awaited debut EP from cellist and producer Laura Wolf is the culmination of a four-year evolution from lifelong classical musician, to live-loop based singer-songwriter, to electronic producer. 

In 2019, after being bedridden by an emergency surgery and in the wake of cancelling a cross-country tour, Laura was forced to reimagine her songwriting process and identity from live-loop based to one that thrives in the home studio format.  A visual as much as an auditory experience, Wolf’s live sets blend the analog and the digital, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in a mesmerizing world of cello, electronic percussion and sampling.  

Long frustrated by the obstacle of transferring her collage-like performances into recordings, Wolf used her convalescence to learn how to record and produce music on her own.

In March 2020 she embarked on a five day song-a-day challenge. Though she quickly abandoned these demos, for the greater part of the next year she spent every waking moment in her parent’s attic (turned makeshift recording studio) teaching herself Ableton, recording and electronic production.  

When she revisited these song demos almost a year later it felt like uncovering a forgotten time capsule.  What emerged was an idiosyncratic collage of a year steeped in creativity and growth. 

The songs were lush with audio artifacts: accidental glitches and clicks, her dad yelling in the background of cello take, remnants of rules broken and naively repaired. These were mementos of a time steeped in creative evolution, collected while climbing the production learning curve and finally feeling autonomous in the electronic space. In the winter of 2021 she enlisted Zubin Hensler (The Westerlies, Half Waif, Fleet Foxes, Twig Twig) to mix and elevate her glitchy arrangements into an EP that pays homage to its own patchwork process.  

Credits:

All songs written, produced, performed and recorded by Laura Wolf in her parents attic

Flute by Jake Rudin (track 01 only)

Mixed by Zubin Hensler 

Mastered by Joe Lambert

Album Art by Ryan Kershaw, Photo by Sara Laufer

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Press:

"Centred around her cello, which drifts, at will, between a soft lilt and piercing strikes, and further imbued with beautifully immersive layering and creaking percussive knocks, ‘Body Part’ ... channels in to something distinctly enchanting in its own right."

— Gold Flake Paint

"Multi-instrumentalist Laura Wolf’s sound is the congruence of tones eclectic and electronic. Her new single “Good Veins” exists at a point wherein the acoustic becomes synthetic, where strings are modified and altered insofar as they become a new instrument altogether, a sound Wolf aptly describes as “cello glitch pop.”

— The Deli NYC

"Transitioning from soft to tough and gritty...can be challenging. In her new release, Wolf meets the challenge with a lush and distinctive sound… a one-woman orchestra. In live shows, she drapes herself in instruments as she builds complex songs one voice at a time with the help of a loop pedal."

— THRDCOAST

“A hypnotic one-woman set that sounded like a full band…she stole the night. With roaming ethereal vocals...She maneuvered gadgets at least as much as she plucked or bowed her cello. Wolf spoke again, briefly, only at the end of the set. By that time, a sense of awe had swept the room.”

—New Haven Independent 

For Media Inquiries:

Laura Wolf ~~ laurawolfcello@gmail.com

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Laura Wolf - Artifacts

01  Cross Your Mind

02  Paravane

03  Work of Art

04  In the Attic (Bandcamp Exclusive) 

click song title for private streaming links

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Links:

1. Album Art

2. Cross Your Mind Art

3. Press Photos

4. Additional Press

5. Bandcamp

6. Private streaming links to ‘Artifacts’