Shelf Life by Laura Wolf, out June 2 via Whatever’s Clever Records
Photo by Denis Semenyaka
Credits:
All songs written, produced, performed by Laura Wolf
All parts recorded and performed by Laura Wolf except for vocals in tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 recorded by Zubin Hensler
Clarinet by Kristina Teuschler (track 02)
Mixed by Zubin Hensler
Mastered by Joe Lambert
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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 Sara Laufer
Press:
“Singer-songwriter and producer Laura Wolf enshrouds sophisticated chamber music richy textured dream pop. Ornate yet organic.”
— Bandcamp Daily in the New and Notable section, November 2021
"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."
"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.”
"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."
“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.”
Genre: Indie-Pop, Art Pop, Oblique