LISTEN: girlhouse - 'happy now'

Delighting in new girlhouse lately... new track happy now follows up the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin self-titled offering the girlhouse ep, released a few months back. (I was about to type that it was a few weeks ago and now I'm alarmed at the swift passing of time of late... uh oh.) While the EP served as an introduction to girlhouse (AKA Lauren Luiz) and her musical world, happy now sees her building on the momentum of the EP, and honing her style. It's passionate and unapologetically feisty ("are you fucking happy now?!") and I'm a little in love with it, and excited to hear what she releases next.

On the track, Lauren writes: "'Happy now' started as an angry poem towards someone in my life that was really emotionally challenging to me, but as we started producing it and I started looking at the lyrics from a different perspective, I realized I was projecting everything I hated about myself towards this other person. Happy now is my heart, gladiator screaming "are you not entertained?" to my body after doing all the things and following all the people that should in theory make me happy but in the end left me feeling empty." 

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EP NEWS: girlhouse - 'the girlhouse ep'

Happy Wednesday! (And, good riddance to you know who, I hope.) Time for something I'm really digging from a relatively new artist, girlhouse. Following up recent singles the fatalist and knuckle tattoo, new track loaded gun is the last to be taken from the upcoming debut offering, the girlhouse ep. Taking sonic inspiration from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Snail Mail (heck yes) the EP delivers a look into the world of girlhouse, AKA Portland-born, Nashville-based Lauren Luiz. 

Lauren shares on the upcoming EP that it "follows my story of landing in LA and finding out exactly how ignorant I was to the real world; whether that be relationships, men in general, career, sex, friendships, or battling mental illness and dealing with trauma, it all felt new to me." 

About the new single, she adds: "the last single before the EP, 'loaded gun' is about inherited trauma and the bummer of becoming everything you said you never would. I feel like forgiving people from your past for abuse or neglect that happened to you when you were young and vulnerable is SO important to start forgiving yourself, this song is a moment when I recognised inherited bad behaviour and wanting to take control of my future." 

the girlhouse ep is due for release on May 14th. 

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