LAW announces second EP and London headline show

Following the release of her incredible debut EP ‘Haters and Gangsters’ earlier this year, rising primal soul-pop queen LAW has announced the release of a second. Due out on 16 June, new EP ‘Cowboys and Hustlers’ will be preceded by a headline show at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters on 9 June.

You can watch the video for lead track ‘Hustle’ here: http://youtu.be/FLzJKZkiEyY

Artist: LAW
Title: ‘Cowboys and Hustlers’ EP
Label: showlovepeoplenowkiss
Release Date: 16 June 2014
Formats:  Free Limited Digital Download
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Having already caught the eye of those in the know with the sublime primal soul-pop of debut EP ‘Haters and Gangsters’ LAW returns with new release EP ‘Cowboys and Hustlers’, due out on 16 June via showlovepeoplenowkiss. The work of Edinburgh resident Lauren Holt, ‘Cowboys and Hustlers’ filters LAW’s wonderfully experimental vision through a more refined lens – balancing those deep, dark tones with a lighter, more playful touch whilst that voice of hers lends an undeniable soul to every syllable.

Speaking of that voice, on ‘Cowboys and Hustlers’ it finds itself – more than ever before – bent to LAWs increasingly diverse will. On the quieter songs like lead track ‘Hustle’ it surrounds the listener with its smokey tones and enveloping handclaps. “This one is important to me as it was the first thing that we wrote together as ‘LAW’. I was very nervous, giving the vocal a stilted quality” LAW herself says of the track. Anyone who knows LAW though will know nervous doesn’t really mean timid, as the song’s clattering chorus and strident looping beats affirm.

Alongside ‘Hustle’, it is new cut ‘Lilo’ that represents one of the EPs most playful and melodic numbers – showing a lighter side to LAW’s voice. “I hadn’t been in the studio for a while” LAW says when speaking about its recording process, “and wanted to find a different lyrical perspective. In hindsight, this one is about someone very like my sister, or my sister. It’s about someone who is so resolute in their own thinking, their very strength can sometimes be their downfall. Their present is like a memory.”

When she chooses to show her harsher side then that voice becomes a series of instructions: Listen! Pay attention! This is important! With this voice it is possible to gently melt the walls of the basements she sings in. EP opener ‘Touches’ arrives in a flurry of skittering beats and menacing synths, before LAWs words trip and roll off her tongue in a fast-paced, demanding manner. “You should be seen and not heard, for your worth!” comes the biting refrain. “I think I was in a reflective mood about the music industry that day, and some of the vacuous but pretty people who are immersed in it. Live, I play guitar on this one, so I associate it now with finding a different voice somewhere else, reaching out of my comfort zone. Things can seem too accessible and easy nowadays”

‘Peter’ finds her with sass in her stride while that trademark bite comes again in final number ‘Transcenders’. In LAW’s own words: “Again, I was trying to use different voices, a biting vocal line with concise lyrics – I’d seen some girls out with nothing on. I read the papers. People had stared in the street.” LAW has always absorbed popular culture from a deeply personal stand point; taking its vivid primary colours and exclamation marks, she filters then through the grey skies and muted green seas of Edinburgh. Watching the world from a quiet place – with reggae on the turntable and no TV – she listens to its refracted echoes in overheard conversations, picking up minute details from shifting trends, divining culture from subtle changes in pensioner styles, creating moods from bus journeys and turning broad sweeping cliches into personal statements. A police siren becomes a melody line. Street talk becomes pillow talk. From this a truly unique perspective is garnered, one that results in LAWs defiantly experimental streak and appeal.

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Two EP’s deep and LAW is only just hitting her brave and unique stride. One of the best live performers currently out there, we strongly suggest witnessing her whilst she is playing smaller rooms. Live dates below, including her debut headline show in London on 9 June.

LAW Live dates
Wed 21 May Glasgow MILK
Sat 7 June Norwich Arts Centre
Mon 9 June London Servant Jazz Quarters

Praise for LAW:
‘A revolutionary new blueprint for R ‘n’ B and soul’ The Skinny
‘It’s the ancient yet modern quality to LAW’s voice that intoxicates. Giving the shivers like prime Etta James or Grace Jones’ Mojo
‘Brilliant debut EP, this hair-raisingly good’ Sunday Times
‘She looks positively iconic’ DIY Magazine
‘Haters’ totally rules, thanks to its dystopian R&B’ 4/5 The List
Lauren Holt’s vocals are arresting and purposeful, and demand your full attention’  ‘Track of the Day’ The Line of Best Fit
‘In its seven captured instances of deconstructionist pop, soul and hip-hop, we’re left with a lasting artefact; one that’s well worth treasuring.’ Notion
‘Track of the Week’ London in Stereo
‘Packed with grit and soul, … her new EP ‘Haters and Gangsters’ is bound to impress’ Clash
‘Backed by a vintage, fly on the wall style video; ‘Hustle’ is more than enough reason to get entirely entranced by LAW’ The 405
‘Deep, dark, and brooding, LAW’s debut track ‘Hustle’ fuses primal, pervading bass lines with a driving percussion’ Crack in The Road