LONDON: Upset the Rhythm @ PinUps

Wednesday 7th March, 2018

7:30pm

Event information

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SHANNON LAY
Wednesday 7 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6

SHANNON LAY is a L.A. singer-songwriter whose new album, ‘Living Water’, is a work of plainspoken mysticism that goes to the small, bright truth of things, showcasing her unusual songwriting and quietly commanding voice. Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. ‘Living Water’ was recorded by Emmet Kelly (Cairo Gang, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ty Segall) in his Los Angeles home studio and you can even hear the room reacting to the music taking shape around it. Shannon has a voice that transcends time and space. You can’t tell if she’s old or new, if she’s sitting next to you, on a mountain top, or down in some canyon. Already her second LP to be released in 2017, Shannon is a prolific songwriter, one who lives and breathes melody and with guitar skills to boot. Despite it’s 14 tracks, Living Water comes in well under 40 minutes, but like Pink Moon or Just Another Diamond Day before it, this is music so potent it exists outside the realms of time – but in a world specific only to itself and the new feelings it creates. ’Living Water’ is a life-affirming celebration of the wounds we all wear, captured with Shannon’s deceptively straightforward approach. Like a late-summer sky the colour of a robin’s egg, the album’s outward simplicity masks the vastness of what lies behind. Having just finished a tour with Ty Segall, Shannon is set to support Kevin Morby on a national tour this winter.

https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/

1 Tolpuddle Street
London
N1 0XT

www.theislington.com