LAUREL Releases NEW Mixtape Today: Allelopathy - feat. FKA Twigs, Andru and Yung Gud

[Gina Schulman]

[Laurel - For Web]
Premieres New Mixtape on Complex
PRESS HERE<http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/04/premiere-laurel-allelopathy-feat-yung-gud-fka-twigs-andru> to Listen

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"Laurel's Allelopathy Mixtape Is Otherworldly" - Complex

Today, London singer/songwriter/producer Laurel premieres her new mixtape Allelopathy on Complex. PRESS HERE<http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/04/premiere-laurel-allelopathy-feat-yung-gud-fka-twigs-andru> to listen! In the 5-track collection, Laurel puts her own unique spin on instrumentals by FKA Twigs and underground NYC hip-hop producers Andru and Yung Gud. The title of the mixtape was inspired by the biological phenomenon of the same name, in which an organism produces biochemicals that influence the growth, survival and reproduction of other organisms.

At only 20-years-old, Laurel has released single Firebreather and two EPs, To The Hills and Holy Water, to high critical acclaim. Both bodies of work amplify her signature haunting and beautiful sound that layers subtle electronic beauts with orchestral arrangements, all while highlighting her sultry vocals. Her song "Fire Breather" was featured on the wildly popular CW show The Vampire Diaries in 2014, and she has received major airplay in the UK on BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, XFM; major DJs Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens, and included on the BBC Introducing Playlist. Her arresting tracks have garnered over 5 million Spotify streams and millions of YouTube views.  She has been featured on SPIN, Interview Magazine.com, Vogue.com, Vice's Noisey.com, W Magazine, The Lab, BULLETT, Pigeons & Planes, Myspace and most recently worked with Miss Selfridge<http://www.missselfridge.com/en/msuk/category/denim-lounge-4230606/laurel-qa-4225650/home?cmpid=soc_d_tw_w29_thu_pm4> on their new Denim Campaign.

Hailing from a tiny town near Southampton in the UK, Laurel 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 (Iggy Azalea, Ellie Goulding, Dan Croll) off the strength of a song demo. She is also represented by NEXT models.

Allelopathy Track Listing:
1. Avena (feat. FKA Twigs)
2. Juglans (feat. Yung Gud)
3. Arctostaphylos (feat. Yung Gud)
4. Laurocerasus (feat. Yung Gud)
5. Rhus (feat. Andru)

Praise for Laurel:
"[Laurel's vocals] pierce through the atmospheric, orchestral R&B grooves of the four songs and wrap around themselves, coming at the listener from all directions - sometimes hushed, sometimes blaring, usually in gorgeous self-harmony." - SPIN

"The layers of Laurel's music have always gone deep, and it appears, with this video [Memorials], that the meteoric path of this fully forming artist is finally surfacing." - V Magazine

"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

"But that's part of Laurel's charm, the poise that's taken her from plunking out simple melodies on the family piano to self-producing lush electro-pop that tops Internet charts and lands on episodes of 'The Vampire Diaries.'"
- T Magazine

"Laurel's heady mix of folk-inflected vocals, slow-burning piano, and soaring strings places her somewhere between Laura Marling and Lana del Rey, but it's her brooding and distinctly English lyricism that sets her apart." - BULLETT

"Somewhere between the stairs in the crowd's standing area and her spot-lit position center-stage, she transformed from Laurel, bright-eyed teen, to Laurel, the rather sultry, mononymous performer." - Noisey.com

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

"2015 better make way for this entrepreneur, fashionista, and musical dynamo who not only possesses the drive, raw talent, and it-factor of a budding star, but delivers an intoxicating edge wrapped in unadulterated elegance." - Culture Collide


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