Description
This sampler features songs from Shannon LaBrie's sophomore album War & Peace and her EP Songs From The Smoakstack.
Nashville’s Shannon LaBrie is excited to announce the album release party and show for War & Peace
on
May 4th
at the High Watt. Get tickets here: http://tktwb.tw/1SltSyX
War & Peace is a female coming out record of sorts. It’s LaBrie, flexing her emotional
and artistic muscles. Allowing herself to be completely vulnerable in
her writing, digging
deeper into some very dark feelings, and standing strong behind her opinions and
convictions, not worrying about political correctness.
LaBrie wrote War & Peace
after her and her partner lost their baby boy in the middle of their pregnancy. After the loss LaBrie felt like she was at war with the entire world,
including herself. This experience was a very hard, yet powerful lesson
on life being
short, which pushed her into focusing on what was really important. So LaBrie left all
of her political correctness at the studio door and with this record decided to speak her
mind. She turned her acid tongue loose on her disdain for politicians on the fiery single
“It’s Political,”
on
“Against the Wall”
she lashes out against social media and how people
can hide from reality behind a screen, and with
“Weight of Your Words”
looks at how
powerful words can really be and that we should all think before we speak because we
have no idea what the receiver of our words has been through.“
"LaBrie's rich voice anchors the record, atop layers of acoustic guitars, as well as sometimes bursts of electric for emphasis, but the real focus is on the vocal melodies.” - All Music War & Peace is a female coming out record.
She separates herself from the rest of her cohorts with insightful stories and a haunting
sensual voice.”
-
Kings of A&R
“The tracks primarily deal with the politics of culture and the experience o
f living as a
human, unafraid to confront the unpleasant atrocities of each.”
-
Philthy Magazine
The album has been lauded for it’s honestly, incredible production and has garnered
LaBrie some well deserved comparisons to soul bearing artists like T-Bone Burnett and
Jenny Lewis.
Paste Magazine
said the album possesses
“
...
instrumentals that sound
like they could have come straight from Jenny Lewis’
The Voyager,”
and
Elmore
Magazine
said
“LaBrie reminds one of an early T-Bone Burnett
–
nudie suit, snarled lip
and all
–
with the sensibilities of Jenny Lewis.”
Videos
Credits
Shannon LaBrie - Writer Credits
1. It's Political: Shannon LaBrie (BMI, LaBrie Music); Kenny Childers (ASCAP, Broadripple Nightclubs Music)
2. Alcohol (Acoustic Version): Shannon LaBrie: (BMI, Laurie Music)
3. Heaven Crashed Down: Shannon LaBrie (BMI, Laurie Music)
4. Generation: Shannon LaBrie (BMI, LaBrie Music)
5. Half Of It: Shannon LaBrie (BMI, LaBrie Music)
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