Town Called Nothing Laura-Mary Carter SKU: JAZZLIFE43EP Barcode: 5053760080466 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jazz Life Released Date: 21st January 2022 Buying Format: 12" Coloured Vinyl EP/Mini Album Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Laura-Mary Carter, best known as one half of rockers Blood Red Shoes, will make her solo debut this December with the release of mini-album, Town Called Nothing. A much quieter and more contemplative sound than her usual guitar-shredding anthems, Town Called Nothing was written in between tours at various sublets and studios in the UK and Los Angeles. “I found a beat up acoustic guitar and without thinking about it songs just started to come to me,” she shares.”The idea of writing on an acoustic guitar was new to me, I’d always written songs for my band which has a very heavy disposition. I realised that writing in this intimate way exposed my voice and changed the way I was writing and singing lyrics.” The record was produced by Ed Harcourt at RAK studios, UK, who also played bass and piano, plusJorma Vik (The Bronx, Eagles Of Death Metal) on drums. Along with the news, Laura-Mary shares the title-track “Town Called Nothing” – a country-indebted lament about the inescapable pull of a relationship doomed to fail. It was the first song penned for the record, written in just under an hour, on a late evening in Los Angeles. “She told me that I will always see a different town on a different day,” says Laura-Mary Carter, recalling her first ever tarot reading as an early teen. “I get it now.” It’s no surprise then, that Laura-Mary found herself starting the rock band Blood Red Shoes, who have spent 17 years touring the world. Playing well over 1000 shows, from London to Los Angeles and Moscow to Melbourne, she was sometimes away from home for over 250 days of the year, and with plenty more to come. But her detachment from a place called “home” started much earlier in life. Born to an Irish family, Laura-Mary moved around a lot as a child, and was the only one of three siblings born in the UK. “I guess I’ve always been the odd one out,” she reflects, “and on top of that everyone is much more outgoing than me.” Introverted and artistic from a young age, Laura-Mary started writing songs “from before I can even remember, to be honest,” and spent a lot of time painting. “I mean I was studying art actually… but the band happened,” she laughs. This sense of displacement is at the core of Laura-Mary’s story and right at the core of her debut solo release “Town Called Nothing”. During a break from touring, she relocated to Los Angeles, continuing her lifelong tradition of constantly moving around. “Nobody ever knows where I live,” she sighs, “it’s like a running joke with my friends.” Even whilst in LA, she didn’t sit still. Moving around between different air’n’b sublets as she kept extending her stay, she landed in a rickety place which by chance had a battered acoustic guitar on the wall, with a couple of missing strings. “It was just me, alone, and I couldn’t write songs the usual way because I didn’t have volume and distortion. Plus the only thing you could use that guitar for was really traditional chords, everything else was out of tune.” It proved to be a very creative time and a much-needed outlet for a softer, more reflective side of Laura-Mary. “I have no idea where it came from but I just wrote these straightforward chords and the lyrics came out…a town called nothing.” A country-indebted lament about the inescapable pull of a relationship doomed to fail, it was the gateway to a new world of songwriting for Laura-Mary, who explains, “it’s about going back to that emotional place, even though you know it’s empty, but you find yourself compelled to go back.” Continuing her once-a-year habit of having her tarot read, she found a lady to read her cards in Venice Beach of all places. “I thought it might be a bit tacky but I was new to town and it was easier,” she laughs. “But then she actually really affected me.” According to the tarot, Laura-Mary would “find her heart in Arizona”. Always ready to move on to the next town, she decided to leave the next morning, opened her phone and pulled up a map of Arizona. Scouring across the sparse deserts and plains, she froze in her tracks at one tiny name. “Nothing”. “There’s an actual real place called Nothing,” she says, wide-eyed and clearly still in disbelief. “It was literally fate.” And so it began, a period of restlessness, driving around the USA with just an acoustic guitar and a film camera, so she could engage in one of her other passions – photography. “It started in the real town called Nothing,” she says, “and then it became a sort of obsession, because it’s a completely abandoned town, and I kept going back and wanting to find more of these places”. Drawn to the romance of run down, empty ghost towns, they felt like the physical representation of a lot of her own feelings of outsiderdom, of being the odd one out, of being alone. “Someone once told me I am a love addict,” she opines, “and this felt the same – feeling pulled back to places even though you know there is really nothing there.” The collection of songs on Town Called Nothing were written in this time, then recorded, of course, in not one but in multiple studios, across both the USA and the UK. It shows a yearning, mournful, Americana-tinged and introspective side of the artist, with her voice allowed more space than ever before to really dominant and shape the narrative. “It’s about desolation and abandonment really,” she confirms. “And that fear of being left to go derelict, just like those old towns.” It’s that fear which pushes people back to places even when they know there’s no reason. Just as the artist herself says, “I kept going back to the town called Nothing, because the sign said ‘population: 2’, and I wanted to know if anyone was really there. But there wasn’t. It was always just me by myself.” Artist Laura-Mary Carter Genre Rock And Pop Label Jazz Life Buying Options 12" Coloured Vinyl EP/Mini Album Format 12" , Coloured Vinyl , EP/Mini Album Condition New Country UK Track Listings Blue's Not My Colour Signs Town Called Nothing Better On My Own The City We Live Ceremony Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Peggy Gou I Hear You Rock And Pop | XL Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th June 2024 £21.00 - £22.00 Select options Peggy Gou I Hear You £21.00 - £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: XL Recordings Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th June 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Avers Omega/Whatever Rock And Pop | EHSE Records | 1LP Released 5th August 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Avers Omega/Whatever £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EHSE Records SKU: LPEHR015 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Jethro Tull The Broadsword And The Beast Rock And Pop | Chrysalis | 1LP Released 25th May 2023 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jethro Tull The Broadsword And The Beast £10.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Chrysalis SKU: nn264404 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th May 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Exploded View Obey Rock And Pop | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th September 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Exploded View Obey £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR209LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Led Zeppelin IV (Remastered Original Vinyl) Rock And Pop | Atlantic | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 22nd October 2014 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Led Zeppelin IV (Remastered Original Vinyl) £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Atlantic SKU: 0081227965778 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 22nd October 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Pink Can’t Take Me Home Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 2LP Released 19th January 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pink Can’t Take Me Home £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 19075808361 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 19th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jamie Lenman Devolver Rock And Pop | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP Released 27th October 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jamie Lenman Devolver £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM217V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Moses The Silience In Between Rock And Pop | EMI | 1LP Released 13th May 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Moses The Silience In Between £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EMI SKU: 4537008 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Who, The Volume 3: The Track Records Singles 1967-1973 Rock And Pop | USM | 7", Box Set Released 26th October 2015 £115.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Who, The Volume 3: The Track Records Singles 1967-1973 £115.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: USM SKU: 4737108 Formats: 7", Box Set Released Date: 26th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View T. 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