4/25 LAURA WOLF RELEASES ETHEREAL AND PLAYFUL SINGLE “PAPER AND PLASTIC” , SHARES MUSIC VIDEO
‘SHELF LIFE' OUT 06/02 VIA WHATEVER'S CLEVER
Genre: Alt-Pop, Chamber-Pop, bedroom-pop
RIYL: FKA Twigs, Empress Of, Hyd
“Paper and Plastic” out on 4/25
Playful and ethereal orchestral alt-pop. Intricate, dense, and playfully oblique, “Paper and Plastic” is the second single off of cellist, songwriter, and producer Laura Wolf’s forthcoming album Shelf Life. Wolf's breathy vocals weave haunting synth and cello riffs into this oblique chamber-pop exploration of myth and memory. Inspired by conversations with her late grandmother where reality was rarely tethered to fact, “Paper and Plastic” sorts through fact and fiction. The sweeping orchestral arrangements are made up of generations of resampling, taking the listener along an off-kilter dance through murky memory by a rotating cast of characters. Like all songs in this album, ‘Paper and Plastic” lives the question of what does it matter if the stories are still factual, as long as they are real.
Shelf Life is out June 2nd, 2023 on Whatever's Clever.
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WATCH: Music Video for “Paper and Plastic”
While mourning her grandmother, Wolf began sifting through Super 8 film left to collect dust in a storage facility. The vibrant footage had decayed and collected artifacts over time. These visuals became the inspiration and foothold for music video of “Paper and Plastic”, animated and edited by Wolf’s friend and collaborater Dan Criblez.
LISTEN: ‘Shelf Life’
As playful as they are intricate, Laura Wolf’s pop arrangements blend sweeping orchestral elements with industrial found sounds into her signature art-pop collage. The cellist, singer and producer’s second EP ‘Shelf Life’ is an insidious yet colorful unraveling passed through generations of a rotating cast of characters. While mourning her grandmother and homebound in the wake of an emergency surgery, Laura Wolf embarked on a journey through family folklore and genetic testing. Sorting myth from memory, ‘Shelf Life’ is a gradual unspooling of the synergy between original source and manipulated sample, which aptly weaves the fabric of Laura’s musical DNA. ‘Shelf Life’ is about life after trauma and what we do with the decay we’re dealt.
read more bout Shelf Life HERE
Credits:
written, arranged by Laura Wolf
produced by Laura Wolf and Zubin Hensler
all sounds recorded, programmed and performed by Laura except for:
Laura’s vocals tracks 1 - 5 engineered by Zubin Hensler
Clarinet track 2 by Kristina Teuschler
Piano sample track 3 by Tyler Bussey
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Producer, cellist and singer Laura Wolf picks apart genres and stitches them back together again; the result is her off-kilter chamber-pop arrangements packed with delicious sound design. Deemed "beautifully immersive" and "distinctly enchanting" by Gold Flake Paint, Laura’s solo project is a lifelong laboratory for experimentation and homespun production. Sometimes saturated with cello, often driven by synths and programmed drums, Laura’s pop-collages always embrace glitchy sound design, orchestral fragments and airy vocals. Her live performances, a visual as much as an auditory experience, blend analog, digital and whimsical experimentalism. By way of New Haven, Chicago and Providence, Laura currently calls Brooklyn, NY home. Her past live and studio credits include Matt Pond PA, Lawrence, and Feverkin.
Photo by Denis Semenyaka
Select Press:
“Singer-songwriter and producer Laura Wolf enshrouds sophisticated chamber music richly textured dream pop. Ornate yet organic.”
— Bandcamp Daily in the New and Notable section, November 2021
“After only a handful of singles, Wolf has become one of the most interesting up-and-coming figures in art pop”
- High Clouds
"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."