View basket “Ummagumma” has been added to your basket. 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 AC/DC Let There Be Rock Rock And Pop | Epic | 1LP Released 9th May 2009 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders AC/DC Let There Be Rock £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epic SKU: 5107611 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th May 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yves Tumor The Asymptotical World EP Rock And Pop | Warp | 12", 7", Box Set, EP/Mini Album Released 15th October 2021 £15.00 - £41.00 Select options Yves Tumor The Asymptotical World EP £15.00 - £41.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warp Formats: 12", 7", Box Set, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 15th October 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Geneva Jacuzzi Lamaze Rock And Pop | Mexican Summer | 1LP Released 26th February 2021 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Geneva Jacuzzi Lamaze £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mexican Summer SKU: MEX2931 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Virginia Wing Ecstatic Arrow – Indies Only Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 8th June 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Virginia Wing Ecstatic Arrow – Indies Only £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP490X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Josephine Foster Fairy Faithful Harmony – Indies Only Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th November 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Josephine Foster Fairy Faithful Harmony – Indies Only £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP533X Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 23 Skidoo Seven Songs Rock And Pop | LTM | 2LP Released 31st August 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 23 Skidoo Seven Songs £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: LTM SKU: LTMLP2528 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 31st August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Sigur Ros Odin’s Raven Magic Rock And Pop | Krunk | 2LP Released 4th December 2020 £17.99 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Sigur Ros Odin’s Raven Magic £17.99 £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Krunk SKU: 0190296827204 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th December 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nitzer Ebb Ebbhead Rock And Pop | Pylon | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th January 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nitzer Ebb Ebbhead £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Pylon SKU: PYLON45LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Editors In Dream Rock And Pop | PIAS | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 2nd October 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Editors In Dream £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS SKU: PIASR830LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charlie Puth CHARLIE Rock And Pop | Atlantic | 1LP Released 9th December 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charlie Puth CHARLIE £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Atlantic SKU: 0075678634642 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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