Nashville-based singer-songwriter Shannon
LaBrie‘s sophomore album War & Peace is out this Friday, April 1, 2016.
LaBrie turns her focus to contemporary America and emotional turmoil on War & Peace. 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. Songs like “Heaven Crashed Down” and “Alcohol” put painful emotions on display, while “Weight of Your Words” might feature her strongest vocal performance on the album, and “Then There’s You” features a jazzy love duet with Gabe Dixon.
Paste Magazine premiered the single “It’s Political” a month ago and said “With instrumentals that sound like they could have come straight from Jenny Lewis’ The Voyager, “It’s Political” is a song about despair and loss of faith in government. “Politicians today make President Lincoln look like a fairy tale,” said LaBrie. “These days it’s all power and manipulation. Meanwhile, I’m out here starving for the truth! It’s the weakness in me that wants to give up and bury my hope of ever having an honest president who stands for what’s right. I see glimpses of hope but, in the end, once the elected steps foot in the White House, they close the door on us. They are after a pot of gold, and in the end, we have to pay for their greed. I guess I’m just another millennial longing for the voice of Honest Abe.”
Listen to the War & Peace album premiere on All Music.
Watch War & Peace album trailer below:
Listen to Shannon LaBrie’s Christmas EP ‘My Snow Angel‘ on iTunes and Spotify.
This EP is full of originals like the acoustic ‘Come on, Christmas‘, the soothing ‘My Snow Angel‘, and my favorite song on the EP the sexy I just need to “See Your Face” on Christmas day.
There are also 3 gorgeous covers of your favorite christmas songs ‘Silent Night‘, ‘Away in a Manager‘ and ‘O Come Emmanuel‘.
Shannon LaBrie Songs from the Smoakstack
1. Alcohol [Watch Lyric Video]
2. Generation
3. The Half Of It
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Produced by: Paul Moak at The Smoakstack
Music Connection named LaBrie as one of the “Best Unsigned Artists of 2013”.
LaBrie’s debut album, Just Be Honest, debuted in the Top Ten of iTunes’ Singer/Songwriter chart in February 2013.
Bob Lefsetz singled her out in The Lefsetz Letter, noting: “Made me believe like the great singer-songwriters of yore, maybe this woman has something to say. That in this crazy, mixed-up, shook-up world she can illuminate her story and people can relate.”
Songs from the Smoakstack is LaBrie’s follow up to her debut album. LaBrie will be rolling out music all year long stay tuned!
The first time I heard ‘Alcohol‘ by Shannon LaBrie I became obsessed. I needed to hear it again and again. I couldn’t stop listening. I had it on repeat for weeks. It’s beautifully sad. It punches you in the gut. I think everyone has someone in their life that this song reminds them of. The lyrics are poetic and at the same time very visual. The melody is intoxicating. And her voice…it doesn’t get better than this. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!
Adept on the piano and guitar, Shannon LaBrie was “raised on James Taylor and Lauren Hill.” LaBrie’s debut album, Just Be Honest, debuted in the Top Ten of iTunes’ Singer/Songwriter chart in February 2013. Perhaps the song that has gotten the most attention is “I Remember A Boy,” backed by soulful guitar tones that hint at Daniel Lanois. Bob Lefsetz singled it out in The Lefsetz Letter, noting: “This track affected me. Made me believe like the great singer-songwriters of yore, maybe this woman has something to say. That in this crazy, mixed-up, shook-up world she can illuminate her story and people can relate.”
LaBrie’s debut at Austin City Limits Music Festival earned her several impressive reviews of her live performance. Austin Chronicle raved “LaBrie is a true guitarist and singer/songwriter from Nashville whose soulful voice’s sensual honey-crisp highs brings to mind the late, great Jeff Buckley.”
Buy ‘Alcohol’ on iTunes or Amazon
Play ‘Alcohol’ on Spotify or Rdio or Rhapsody
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