girlhouse releases 'the third ep' alongside new single 'facetime after sex' on May 6th through Secret Road Records
LISTEN TO ‘THE THIRD EP’ HERE
+ SUPPORTING THE WRECKS ON THEIR EXTENSIVE US TOUR
Following the enormous support for her recent shared singles ‘cool guy’ and ‘paul blart mall cop’, which have since been supported by Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1 and Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq and Don Letts at BBC 6Music, as well as Sirius XM Alt Nation's Advanced Placement, Lisa Worden (Alt 98.7 LA), WYMS Milwaukee and WNXP in Nashville who have it on rotation, Billboard’s 10 Cool New Pop Songs, plus landing on Spotify’s New Music Friday US, All New Indie and Today’s Indie Rock, and Apple Music’s New In Rock playlists as well as both singles hitting the #1 spot on HYPE MACHINE, fast-rising indie bedroom-pop artist girlhouse (aka Lauren Luiz) has now released ‘the third ep’, showcased by the new single ‘facetime after sex’.
WATCH THE FACETIME AFTER SEX’ VIDEO HERE
Arriving in the wake of her two standout collections in the last eighteen months, ‘the girlhouse ep’ and ‘the second ep’, which have since gone onto garner more than ten million streams combined, ‘the third ep’ sets to see girlhouse break out of her formative shell and embark on a bolder and more expressive direction. Blending a mix of alt-pop and lo-fi indie-rock textures throughout, her music to date has been a bold and captivating example of her ever forward-thinking approach to songwriting.
Speaking about the new EP, she said, “I split this ep in two acts. The first act follows the euphoria of avoidance, doing everything to detach from all feeling while playing house. The back half is meant to snap you into reality with darker sounds and themes, i talk about losing friendships not only to death but also to the flow of life, and i try to be more vulnerable with the person i love and ask them straight up, “please don’t stop loving me”. The theme of this ep is really about coming to grips with reality and the growing pain that comes with it. I hope you like listening to this train wreck as much as I liked writing it :)”
The collection’s latest single ‘facetime after sex’ perfectly encapsulates the sweet and compelling sound ‘the third ep’ is all about. While inspired by an awkward dating phase in her early twenties, she returns to that point in her life with humour and wit to deliver one of the EP’s most heartwarming cuts.
Adding about ‘facetime after sex’, "I wanted FaceTime after Sex to feel as nostalgic as this story is for me. My early 20s were filled with lots of searching for love on the apps (tinder, bumble, etc) right at the beginning of that kind of online dating. Wow. What a time. The types of things people used to say on dates, mostly coming from me, still haunt my dreams. I have some friends that have actually met their current partners on the apps so I know it’s not all bad but for me it was nothing but top tier awkwardness. This song is about a few men I met along my journey to get off of the apps and why I tolerated the shit that I went through."
‘the third ep’ - Tracklisting:
paul blart mall cop
cool guy (2nd single)
facetime after sex
miss you this time
atlantis is a movie
dontstop
Her critically acclaimed debut ‘the girlhouse ep’ and its follow up ‘the second ep’ found support from the likes of BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, DUMMY, Under The Radar, WONDERLAND, The Independent, NOTION, The Independent, EARMILK, La Blogotheque, 1883 Magazine, ATWOOD MAGAZINE, and Record Of The Day. The combined EPs were recently released as a special standalone vinyl for the first time, as part of the 15th annual Record Store Day on April 23rd. the girlhouse eps includes an exclusive demo version of 'a lot', on an orange flexi disc.
girlhouse will hit the road supporting The Wrecks on their extensive US tour in June and July 2022. Tickets on sale now. Full list of dates below:
06.09 • Fresno, CA • Strummer's
06.10 • San Francisco, CA • Cafe Du Nord SOLD OUT
06.11 • San Francisco, CA • Cafe Du Nord 2nd show added!
06.13 • Seattle, WA • The Crocodile LOW TICKET
06.14 • Portland, OR Helocene SOLD OUT
06.16 • Salt Lake City, UT • Soundwell
06.17 • Denver, CO • Gothic Theater
06.18 • Lincoln, NE • Bourbon Theater
06.20 • St. Louis, MO • Delmar Hall
06.21 • Indianapolis, IN • Old National Centre
06.23 • Minneapolis, MN • Amsterdam Hall
06.24 • Milwaukee, WI • Summerfest*
06.25 • Chicago, IL • Bottom Lounge
06.26 • Grand Rapids, MI • Elevation
06.28 • Columbus, OH • A&R Bar LOW TICKET
06.29 • Buffalo, NY • Rec Room
06.30 • Albany, NY • Empire Underground
07.01 • Asbury Park, NJ • Asbury Lanes LOW TICKET
07.06 • Pittsburgh, PA • Thunderbird Music Hall
07.07 • Washington, DC • Black Cat LOW TICKET
07.08 • New York City, NY • Music Hall of Williamsburg LOW TICKET
07.09 • Boston, MA • The Sinclair SOLD OUT
07.10 • Philadelphia, PA • Foundry SOLD OUT
07.12 • Charlotte, NC • The Underground
07.13 • Charleston, SC • Music Farm
07.14 • Orlando, FL • Beacham Theater
07.15 • Atlanta, GA • Terminal West
07.16 • Nashville, TN • Basement East
07.18 • Dallas, TX • Granada Theater
07.19 • Austin, TX • Antone's LOW TICKET
07.21 • Phoenix, AZ • Nile Theater
07.22 • Los Angeles, CA • Regent Theater 2nd show added!
07.23 • Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater SOLD OUT
Ever since she was a teenager, girlhouse’s Lauren Luiz has always felt the pull to try and experience new things. Growing up in the city of Portland, a place of polar opposites with the very liberal on one side to those wielding confederate flags on the other, she first began to make her mark as an actress in her early twenties. Appearing in shows like the NBC hit series Grimm, she felt like her career wasn’t really going to fully begin unless she moved to the heart of the action, Los Angeles.
Driven by her first serious breakup, she migrated to LA in 2013 to pursue her acting career, where she got her first big break in a production of Spring Awakening. The production was all through sign language and half of the cast was deaf, so it gave her a truly unique experience and taught her to sign. The show took her to Broadway, New York, saw her perform for President Barack Obama at The White House, as well as appearing on The Seth Meyers Show. And while her music had yet to come to the forefront of her creative spirit, it was this pursuit of an acting dream that led her to the places and people she would come to build her music career around.
She first moved in with a friend she had met while attending the Old Vic School in Bristol, and began to work at the Diesel Jean store at the city’s Beverly Centre mall. It was here that she met her future band mate/producer Tyler Thompson, who was working at the Sony Store at the time. The two had an instant creative connection and stayed firmly in touch when Lauren had to uproot to New York for her production. But once that show ended, she returned to LA and the pair formed their first musical venture WILD together with another band mate.
Together, WILD became a huge force on the US folk-pop scene. They went onto release a handful of singles and an album that garnered them more than 50 million streams, a slot at SXSW, and sync deals with the likes of Mazda, Switch, and Pixar, it felt like they have found a special connection that they could build something truly special around. But while WILD was still going strong, Lauren had spent the entire time writing music for herself, something different to what the band had been producing so far and so began to explore a new aesthetic. This was the formation of girlhouse, a solo project that Lauren felt was more in keeping with how she was as an artist and gave her a creative outlet to drive her own passions.
Inspired heavily by the works of fellow female singer-songwriters such as Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, and Lucy Dacus, girlhouse now feels like the most confident and fulfilling direction she has taken so far. Now living in Nashville, her personal life still continues to inspire and influence her music, offering us all a window into her soul and creating a bright and sweeping world for us all to enjoy.
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