In many ways, the accompanying collage video by Renata Zeiguer for Laura Wolf‘s new single ‘Homebody‘ perfectly visualises her music (it’s also our Song of the Day). Like a DIY collage, the sounds that Laura Wolf creates lose their gravity as she beautifully repurposes them into something totally new and unexpected. Her home-made quirky arrangements are remarkably intimate and enchanting.
Homebody is taken from her forthcoming new album, Shelf Life, out June 2nd via Whatever’s Clever. It was recorded, written, and produced in her parent’s attic while in convalescence, a period which proved to be one of rapid creative evolution when she taught herself how Ableton, recording and electronic production. Her music reflects an intricately woven series of experiences, which she touches on when discussing the new single and the album’s creation.
“This song began as a two-chord voice memo my friend Tyler Bussey sent me of him playing “bad gibberish” on the piano used by Sufjan Stevens on Carrie & Lowell. I chopped up, warped and re-pitched the piano into a chord progression that became the framework of the song. It came together over the course of one afternoon and it’s actually the quickest I’ve ever written and recorded a complete song, lyrics, sound design and all. When I wrote this song, I was feeling housebound and sidelined by my own body and wanted to find a playful detachment to it all.
“In 2019 through 2020 my health necessitated that I move back in with my parents and over that year I had taken up gardening. As a novice gardener, some of my houseplants had become pot-bound; after I completed the laborious task of dislodging the plants from their pots, I was struck by how their roots had started to grow in and around themselves to create a complex and stubborn nest of stability. I was horrified by my own fate of being more and more comfortable with growing inward and around myself at home while the world seemingly continued to expand without me.”
Pre-order Shelf Life via Bandcamp
Laura Wolf Live Dates:
May 18th, Brooklyn NY @ Elsewhere Zone 1
July 20th, Brooklyn NY @ Purgatory