I’m so happy to have new music out I’ve missed youuuuu
Liz Lawrence released her new album ‘Peanuts’ on 7th June 2024 via Chrysalis Records. Lawrence describes ‘Peanuts’ as “Cate Le Bon meets Primal Scream going off on one about landowners. It’s learning the names of different trees and sweating over being polite in emails. It’s a petition to stop Elon Musk from space-junking up the atmosphere so we can’t see the stars anymore and it’s a big deep breath after going under.”
For the first time in years, Lawrence wanted to work with a producer for Peanuts. She’d won fans with her two previous self-produced albums Pity Party (2019) and The Avalanche (2021) but felt like this one needed to be ‘touched by someone other than myself’. She started to look at all her favourite records and the same name kept appearing: Ali Chant, who produced Perfume Genius, Yard Act and Aldous Harding. Chant was the perfect choice. The resulting album is as wry and observational as her previous work, but with a newfound sense of compassion. "We are disconnecting from each other at a time when we've never needed connection more. I am afraid that we're losing physical spaces, and community spaces, and a sense of us all being together. More than ever, I think we have to rally against that loss."
