Lerryn shares "You Are My Love" single & London date .. Debut EP out 13th Sept on Redundant Span Records

Lerryn


Shares New Single, "You Are My Love" - Listen/Watch here

Debut EP, As A Mother
Due 13th September on Redundant Span Records

London EP Release Show on 19th September at The Ivy House

“A superb introduction – the push and pull of the arrangement matches her conflicted emotions, with ‘As A Mother’ dealing with profound shifts in her life.”
- Clash Magazine


"I really love Lerryn’s As A Mother .. It’s a five-song set filled with precise instrumentation and Lerryn’s earnest singing, like a kind of Estuary Mary Margaret O’Hara who is similarly focussed on bodily change, delivering gentle but intense songs about young family life, the feelings of love and other overwhelming emotions that this new domestic reality can trigger."
- Ted Kessler, The New Cue


“You could easily hear the song rinse and repeat, and it wouldn’t hurt, but at the 52 second mark, the song blisters, revealing a fresh layer of pop sensibility that charms.”
- Austin Town Hall


“Lerryn’s “As A Mother” is abundantly beautiful… [The As A Mother EP] is built on tender, gentle, and wondrous art-pop.”
- Post-Trash

“A really brilliant inventive folk pop song that marries vivid couplets, layers of melody that pour like light through the curtain.. It shows off a massively promising songwriter.”
- God Is In The TV

Following the announcement of her debut EP, As A Mother, and the title-track featuring Naima Bock, South East London artist Lerryn shares a second single, "You Are My Love". Lerryn has also announced an EP launch at London's The Ivy House on 19th September. 

Having been a stalwart of the South East London creative scene for over a decade, the As A Mother EP is the first offering from the next chapter of Lerryn's own life, and the debut release under her own name. It is a record written during her experience of pregnancy, motherhood and a period of profound creative reckoning.

Listen to new single "You Are My Love" below, along with a video made by Lerryn's nephew, Charlie...

Lerryn - You Are My Love

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJupOzPgbE

Lerryn says of "You Are My Love":
 

"A song about a holiday in France. I took the melody to the studio and told the band to imagine the sun was shining and that they had just lit a cigarette and were sat on some hot concrete. This is the first song written as a band for this EP. 
When I sing it I think about how starting a family expands your capacity for love, and what a courageous act that can be."

Of the video, she shares:

"Our nephew (23) Charlie, got a camcorder the same kind all our camping trips were documented on as kids. He filmed me at home while his friend took photos. I used to make all the posters and flyers for the cafe I had, some of  the editing process took me back to those days - some felt tips, a scanner and kitchen table.

"The image of an orange (the same as the one on the EP cover) being shared is a direct representation of those early days of nurturing, endlessly peeling, endlessly feeding."
 

The EP will be available digitally and on a limited tangerine peel cassette, from Redundant Span Records.

Preorder/Pre-Save: https://lerryn.ffm.to/asamotherep

Live:

19th September - The Ivy House, London (tickets)

To take the title of this EP at face value would be a mistake, and slightly reductive. The themes present in As A Mother go far beyond motherhood, and are universal. Love. Comfort. Newness. Happiness. Feeling lost. Feeling at home. Feeling loved. Confusion. Self-belief. The passing of time. The inevitability of change. Sonically, the record takes influence from Electrelane, Margaret O’Hara, and Neil Young.
 
Alongside tracks written directly about her experience of motherhood, the songs on the EP see Lerryn grappling with a new-found life of comfort and domesticity. Born in Hackney, and growing up in the West Country, Lerryn’s mother, a psychotherapist, and late father from Buenos Aires, split when she was eight years old. In what was perhaps a bid to spend more time with her, Lerryn’s father William would come over on Sundays to teach her how to play guitar on one of the instruments from her grandma’s Spanish imported guitar stall in Camden Market.
 
From that point on, songwriting became the tool that Lerryn was able to utilise to express herself. Later, after an art degree in her early twenties, Lerryn spent time living in New York and immersing herself in the spoken word scene. This birthed a new interest in songwriting and eventually led to her forming Dead Arm in Peckham with bandmates Liam Ramsden (Mellah), Perry O’Bray (Buffet Lunch), Kenny Bradley, Matt Silcox (Dairy Classics) and Chris Hopkins (Shakechain), plus occasional collaborator Ben Wallers aka The Rebel. Some of these members remained collaborators, as Kenny played bass on As a Mother, and Liam recorded and produced the EP at Little Legs Studios. Josh Flowers joined the band fresh, as a previous employee of Lerryn's Cafe years before. 

As A Mother is intimate, sweet and moving. But above all it is sensory, most notably on "You Are My Love", a track that features hat-tips to bottled orange juice, bread, cigarettes, wine and nakedness. The track’s pulsing bass line reflects the trudging monotony of the chaotic early days of motherhood. Pushing a pram uphill to the shop. Going through the motions of endless routines. A shared glance with a tired partner. The keyboard brings optimism. This song was written within a few minutes while on honeymoon in France. “You are my love,” Lerryn sings, “and our lives from here begin.”

Elsewhere, on "Be Brilliant To Me", we hear lyrical evidence of how much Lerryn’s studies in art psychotherapy has bled into the record. Written after a dance workshop taken as part of her MA, this song is an uplifting paean about holding your own and connecting with your body. It is optimistic, loving and warm. The lyrics do not speak directly to motherhood, but the song is soaked in the sun-lit fuzz of childhood, managing to almost sound like the feeling of being held. “Take grasp of me. Make me feel free. Be brilliant to me. Sink your toes in…You’re a see saw in the wind. See saw in the wind. Words. Light. Sound.”
 
Other songs on the EP are more specific to domesticity and family love, particularly present on the tracks "As A Mother" and "A House", but most poignantly on "It Won’t Be Long", a song written about the bittersweet sensation of precious time passing, reminiscent of Fairport Convention’s "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", that can reduce Lerryn to tears on stage while performing. The refrain of “it won’t be long now” becomes chant-like, something to cling on to, like beads in the palm, as something painful passes through, and change takes place.

Preorder As A Mother:
https://lerryn.ffm.to/asamotherep

Tracklisting:

1. You Are My Love
2. Be Brilliant To Me
3. It Won't Be Long
4. As a Mother (ft Naima Bock)
5. A House

CONNECT:
Lerryn - Instagram

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