{"id":97995,"date":"2024-12-06T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/femmusic.com\/?p=97995"},"modified":"2024-12-06T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:20:31","slug":"lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/femmusic.com\/2024\/12\/06\/lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Mayberry \u2013 \u00a0Vicious Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lauren Mayberry, the frontwoman for acclaimed electro-pop band CHVRCHES, releases her debut solo album, Vicious Creature<\/em>,<\/a> available now via Island Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vicious Creature<\/em> is both a startling new era in Mayberry\u2019s artistry and the culmination of two decades of life in a band that came before. Across its songs, she writes about sexuality and empowerment from a profoundly personal perspective for the very first time, reconnecting with the icons of her youth – Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, and Kathleen Hanna as well as \u201890s British girl groups such as All Saints and Sugababes, whose music made a formative impact on her in the 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition \u2013 something I really trained myself out of,\u201d Mayberry says. \u201cThat’s ultimately why you start making things \u2013 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 recognize what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond her favorite artists, musicals such as Cabaret<\/em> and Chicago<\/em> were also an inspiration \u2013 works that dig into the dark, physical, and subversive sides of femininity. \u201cEspecially when it came to the visuals for the album, I knew I wanted them to be a part of the storytelling in a way I haven\u2019t been able to do previously,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted to have an ownership over my physical self and how I was involved in the visual part of the storytelling, so I felt like I was in the driving seat of the aesthetic rather than fitting into a landscape that wasn\u2019t really for me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the past year, Mayberry has been sharing songs from the new record, including \u201cCrocodile Tears,\u201d \u201cSomething in the Air,\u201d \u201cShame,\u201d \u201cChange Shapes,\u201d and \u201cAre You Awake?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today she released her new single,\u00a0\u201cSunday Best,\u201d <\/a>and its accompanying visualizer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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