Shelf Life by Laura Wolf

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.

Genre: alt-pop, chamber pop

RIYL: Katie Dey, Yaeji, Hyd, Empress Of, Emily Yacina 

“Calligraphy and Calculations” out April 4th, 2023

Quirky, beat driven, orchestral bedroom pop. Laura Wolf’s home-cooked manipulations are what make her art-pop arrangements so unique. Fittingly, “Calligraphy and Calculations”, the first single from Wolf’s album Shelf Life, is about a different kind of alchemy. Charmed by the Wikipedia page of supercentenarian Kane Tanaka, the producer first built a synth composite of cello and clarinet samples and then a whole beat-driven world to contemplate the mundane moments that keep our personal Bunsen burners aflame. 

RIYL: Yaeji, Katie Dey, Frankie Cosmos

<mood: cross-pollinated>

SINGLE #2: “Paper and Plastic” out April 25, 2023

Playful and ethereal orchestral alt-pop. Intricate, dense, and playfully off-kilter, “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.

RIYL: FKA Twigs, The Knife, Empress Of

<mood: ethereal>

SINGLE #3: “Homebody” out May 16, 2023

Playful chamber pop. Idiosyncratic and infectious, “Homebody” is the third single from Laura Wolf’s forthcoming album. Wolf’s home-made arrangements juxtapose sweeping acoustics with industrial samples into a classically infused art-pop collage. Recorded, written, and produced in her parent’s attic while in convalescence, “Homebody” is about being stuck inside while life spins onward.

<mood: oblique>

RIYL: Barrie, Hyd, Emily Yacina

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.