LAUREL Premieres Music Video for “Shells” on Vogue.com

[Gina Schulman]

LAUREL
Premieres Music Video for “Shells” on Vogue.com

Debut EP To The Hills out now

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Laurel, credit Rebecca Need-Menear

“it doesn’t take long to realize that she is not simply a doe-eyed teenager, but a seriously self-assured songwriter whose drawn, and deserves, comparisons to Lana Del Rey, Lorde, and Florence and the Machine.” ­-Vogue

“One is instantly hypnotized by her enchanting energy and passion for life—making her ‘sweetheart’ title a founded one.” –  VMagazine.com

“Laurel is about to shine in the light of young female talent breaking in the indie pop world.” - Earmilk

“The pounding drum keeps you on the tip of your feet, with her voice pulling you more into her world, a dark and ominous place.”- Disco Naivete

August 7th, 2014--Twenty-year old musical ingénue Laurel has premiered the new music video for her song “Shells” on Vogue.com. PRESS HERE<http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/laurel-shells-music-video/#1> to watch! The track reached #4 on Hype Machine, and is the third off of her debut EP, To The Hills, which she released on April 7th, 2014 via her own label Next Time Records.

Following the release of her EP in April of this year, Laurel paid a visit to North America in June to make her New York City debut at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, and also stopped by NXNE in Toronto. She has been busy this summer playing festivals across the UK ahead of a return to the US at the end of the year. In the last few months, her songs “Fire Breather” and “Blue Blood” have been featured on the global hit TV shows The Vampire Diaries and Beauty and the Beast.

With cinematic songs hinged on seductive, sultry vocals, Laurel’s haunting blend of piano, beats and strings are enchanting.  The singer, songwriter and producer hails from a tiny town somewhere between Southampton and Portsmouth in the UK, and has been writing, producing and performing her own original material since age 14. Following the completion of her college exams, Laurel moved to London and inked a deal with Turn First Records (Dan Croll, Iggy Azalea) off the strength of a song demo. Laurel caused quite a stir after posting her arresting track “Blue Blood,” which sent blogs into a frenzy, hit no.3 on Hype Machine and has amassed over 135,000 soundcloud plays. She has been featured on Vice’s Noisey.com, W Magazine, The Lab, BULLETT, Pigeons & Planes, Myspace and more. She is also represented by NEXT models.

WATCH
Music video for “To The Hills”: HERE<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMPfMP5JVA>
Music video for “Fire Breather”: HERE<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTt2GGszwKE>

Watch + Post “Shells”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusiysiqAQg
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Gina Schulman//Stephanie Williams
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