US indie bedroom pop artist girlhouse returns
GIRLHOUSE RETURNS WITH THE CAPTIVATING NEW SINGLE “WORTH IT”, OUT TODAY MARCH 3RD THROUGH SECRET ROAD RECORDS
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Following on from the enormous support for her highly-praised ‘the third ep‘ last year, which found love amongst Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1, Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq and Don Letts at BBC 6Music, as well as Sirius XM Alt Nation’s Advanced Placement, Lisa Worden (Alt 98.7 LA), WYMS Milwaukee and WNXP in Nashville, fast-rising indie bedroom-pop artist girlhouse (aka Lauren Luiz) makes her eagerly-awaited return with the release of her captivating new single “worth it”.
Honing more of that rich and soaring approach she has always looked to conjure, “worth it” makes for an explosive return to form for the artist at the helm. With its broad and progressive energy building to a rich and cacophonous aesthetic throughout, she is looking to kick off her 2023 with one of her most impactful offerings to date.
Speaking about “worth it”, she said, “I always knew that I could be worthy of love but I had a toxic idea of what loving meant. I’d “fallen in love” with someone who kept telling me I wasn’t enough and yet kept me around. They had so much control over me that even after they weren’t in my life, I still shaped my entire life around proving to them that I could be loved. This was my life up until an interaction after a show in New York that left me completely disenchanted. I don’t even recognize who I was when I was “in love” with them. This song is about that moment and embodies putting words to a situation that I still don’t fully understand yet.”
To support the release of her latest effort, girlhouse will also be supporting Copeland on their upcoming tour from March 8th-11th. Tickets and further information can be found HERE.
Growing up in the city of Portland, a place of polar opposites with the very liberal on one side to those wielding confederate flags on the other, girlhouse’s Lauren Luiz first began to make her mark as an actress in her early twenties. Appearing in shows like the NBC hit series Grimm. Driven by her first serious breakup, she migrated to LA in 2013 to pursue her acting career, where she got her first big break in a production of Spring Awakening. The show took her to Broadway, New York, saw her perform for President Barack Obama at The White House. And while her music had yet to come to the forefront of her creative spirit, it was this pursuit of an acting dream that led her to the places and people she would come to build her music career around. It was here in LA that she met her future band mate/producer Tyler Thompson. The two had an instant creative connection and stayed firmly in touch when Lauren had to uproot to New York for Spring Awakening. But once that show ended, she returned to LA and the pair formed their first musical venture WILD, together with another band mate.
WILD became a huge force on the US folk-pop scene. They went onto release a handful of singles and an album that garnered them more than 50 million streams, a slot at SXSW, and sync deals with the likes of Mazda, Switch, and Pixar and more. But while WILD was still going strong, Lauren had spent the entire time writing music for herself, something different to what the band had been producing so far and so began to explore a new aesthetic. This was the formation of girlhouse, a solo project that Lauren felt was more in keeping with how she was as an artist and gave her a creative outlet to drive her own passions.
Fast forward to today and girlhouse has released three exceptional and critically acclamined EPs her debut ‘the girlhouse ep‘ and the aptly titled follow ups the second ep‘, and ‘the third ep‘ which spawned the singles “cool guy”, “paul blart mall cop”, “concussion”, “pretty girl in LA”, “the fatalist”, “knuckle tattoo” and many more and has amassed over 15 Million streams. She’s toured with Sabrina Carpenter, The Wrecks, and more, as well as opened for Halsey last summer.
girlhouse is a tastemaker favourtie, having featured on Billboard’s 10 Cool New Pop Songs, WONDERLAND, NOTION, DUMMY, EARMILK, ONES TO WATCH, DIY MAG, The Line of Best Fit, Under The Radar, The Independent, La Blogotheque, Coup de Main, Atwood Magazine, Record of The Day, Songwriting Magazine and landed on Spotify’s New Music Friday US, All New Indie and Todays Indie Rock, and Apple Music’s New In Rock playlists to name a few, as well as hitting the #1 spot on HYPE MACHINE multiple times.
Inspired heavily by the works of fellow female singer-songwriters such as Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, and Lucy Dacus and now living in Nashville, her personal life still continues to inspire and influence her music, offering us all a window into her soul and creating a bright and sweeping world for us all to enjoy.
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