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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:48.0pt">LAUREL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Premieres Music Video for “Shells” on
<i>Vogue.com<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Debut EP
<i>To The Hills</i> out now<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><img width="208" height="297" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFB227.2B0FFB10"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Laurel, credit Rebecca Need-Menear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“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.” <b>-<i>Vogue<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“One is instantly hypnotized by her enchanting energy and passion for life—making her ‘sweetheart’ title a founded one.” –
<b><i>VMagazine.com<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“Laurel is about to shine in the light of young female talent breaking in the indie pop world.”
<b><i>- Earmilk</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“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.”-
<b><i>Disco Naivete<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 7<sup>th</sup>, 2014--Twenty-year old musical ingénue
<b>Laurel</b> has premiered the new music video for her song <b>“Shells”</b> on <b>
<i>Vogue.com</i></b>. <a href="http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/laurel-shells-music-video/#1">
<b>PRESS HERE</b></a> to watch! The track reached #4 on <b><i>Hype Machine</i></b>, and is the third off of her debut EP,
<b><i>To The Hills</i></b>, which she released on <b>April 7<sup>th</sup>, 2014 </b>
via her own label <b>Next Time Records</b>.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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
<b>Northside Festival</b> in Brooklyn, and also stopped by <b>NXNE</b> 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
<b>“Fire Breather”</b> and <b>“Blue Blood”</b> have been featured on the global hit TV shows
<b><i>The Vampire Diaries </i></b>and <b><i>Beauty and the Beast</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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 <b>Turn First Records </b>(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 <i>Hype Machine</i> and has amassed over 135,000 soundcloud plays. She has been featured on <i>Vice’s Noisey.com,
W Magazine, The Lab, BULLETT, Pigeons & Planes, Myspace</i> and more. </span>She is also represented by NEXT models.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>WATCH<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Music video for “To The Hills”: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMPfMP5JVA">
HERE</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Music video for “Fire Breather”: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTt2GGszwKE">
HERE</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Watch + Post “Shells”<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusiysiqAQg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusiysiqAQg</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NusiysiqAQg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.classiclaurel.com">www.classiclaurel.com</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/classiclaurel">http://soundcloud.com/classiclaurel</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://classiclaurel.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">classiclaurel.tumblr.com</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/classiclaurel" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/classiclaurel</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/classiclaurel" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/classiclaurel</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>For more on LAUREL, contact:<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>PRESS HERE<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>Gina Schulman//Stephanie Williams<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="mailto:gina@pressherepublicity.com"><i>gina@pressherepublicity.com</i></a><i>//</i><a href="mailto:stephanie@pressherepublicity.com"><i>stephanie@pressherepublicity.com</i></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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