Laura Gibson & Dear Reader Album Launch Show
After support slots with Richmond Fontaine and Peggy Sue, Laura Gibson has charmed audiences with her enchanting voice, tales of travel and transition alongside her DIY style of making music. Together with Dear Reader, whose new album also delves into the world of self discovery and change they will be performing a one-off London show at The Social on January 16th 2012.
Both Dear Reader and Laura Gibson are set to release their new albums on January 9th through City Slang, and with The Social’s intimate surroundings, it’s the perfect place to experience their new material and captivating live performances.
With her album ‘La Grande’, the thematic notion of aggressively taking matters into one’s own hands was at the front of Gibson’s mind, in which she also took on the task of transforming a 1962 Shasta trailer into a makeshift studio/private writing place.
The twin projects of restoration and transformation – all that sanding, painting and do‐it‐yourself problem solving – seeped into her music, a sometimes surreal blend of styles that doesn’t belong to any particular decade or genre, but leaves the listener with the distinct impression that something old has been repurposed in a brilliant new way.
Similarly, Dear Reader’s Cheri MacNeil underwent a dramatic change, taking a step back from the religion that was once so intrinsic to her way of life. In ‘Idealistic Animals’, she’s composed an album that examines the consequences of deciding that the very foundation on which one has built one’s life is worse than flimsy. MacNeil admits that she was once close to fanatical, but, at the start of her twenties doubts started to creep in and she began to reconsider her life’s course.
Laura Gibson releases her album ‘La Grande’ on January 9th and you can download the single of the same name here: http://soundcloud.com/cityslang/laura-gibson-la-grande.
Dear Reader releases ‘Idealistic Animals’ on January 9th and you can download ‘Bear (Young’s Done In)’ here: http://soundcloud.com/cityslang/dear-reader-bear-youngs-done
