Video: Lauren Early, ‘Out of Style’

Kevin Bronson on May 14th, 2019

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San Fernando Valley-bred Lauren Early is a singer-songwriter and former touring guitarist for Girlpool. Her music runs along the same lines — unvarnished indie-rock, raw and honest, sung delicately as if squinting into the blinding sun of pop culture.

Early’s experiences after she left L.A. for a time inform “Out of Style,” the first single from her debut EP, “Patience.” “I grew up during a really amazing time for music in Los Angeles, and then I lived in San Fransisco for a year in 2012 and literally all I did was go to amazing shows with my two friends every night for a year,” Early says. “Then I moved to New York and finally started playing in bands — but it wasn’t the same. The ‘scene’ I found myself in was just overrun by boys who like went to NYU and did a lot of coke and wanted to sound like the Strokes. It was depressing. Then I wrote this song about it.

The song, she adds, “is the oldest song on the EP — I wanted this to be the first song released because it’s kind of a love letter to my favorite things, true music and true friendship, and I like the tone that sets. I wrote this at a time when I felt the absence of those things.”

Early introduces the single with a kitschy video that’s the work of Roxy Campos and Stumble on Tapes, not to mention a bunch of costumed pals a big fella who toted Early around on his shoulders.

“Patience” comes out May 24.

||| Watch: The video for “Out of Style”