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Track of the Day: Laura Gibson – The Cause

22nd Jan 2016

What do Billie Holiday, Nancy Sinatra, Madeleine Peyroux and Regina Spektor have in common? Well, if her debut track is anything to go by, it’s that they’ve all been big inspirations on the utterly bewitching sound of Portland-by-way-of-New-York songwriter and musician Laura Gibson.

You can check out the percussive, soulful groove of ‘The Cause’ in full below – it’s a sultry number that swells with orchestral breaks and scant drums, as Gibson’s distinct and smoky vocal ties everything together. Staccato guitar stabs and a rolling, funk-edged bass line lend a more Americana-influenced Amy Winehouse feel to proceedings and mark this track out as one you’ll be dropping in plenty of Spring/Summer playlists over the coming months.

In March 26, 2015, her apartment building in the Lower East Side blew up as the result of a gas explosion. Laura was unharmed, but lost almost all that she owned and had been working on. All identification, musical instruments, stacks of notebooks, and every word she had written in the past several years was reduced to a pile of rubble.

‘The Cause’ is the sound of a determined woman rebuilding a creative life cruelly and too easily lost, and her new album, aptly titled Empire Builder, is released on April 1st through City Slang.

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