Lauren Mayberry, the frontwoman for acclaimed electro-pop band CHVRCHES, released her first solo album Vicious Creature.
The new album, which the New York Times calls “an ambitious and emotional pop odyssey” is both a startling new era in Mayberry’s artistry and the culmination of two decades of life in a band that came before. Across its songs, she writes about sexuality and empowerment from a profoundly personal perspective for the very first time, reconnecting with the icons of her youth – Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, and Kathleen Hanna as well as ‘90s British girl groups such as All Saints and Sugababes, whose music made a formative impact on her in the 2000s.
Ari Shapiro at NPRcaught one of her first live solo shows in DC and wrote “This show feels significant. Like a moment people might talk about years from now as the start of something big.”