Canadian-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Laura Lucas confidently steps into the spotlight with her latest, "Woman," an introspective and resounding track. Taken from her upcoming full-length debut, "There's A Place I Go," due out on November 14 via Nettwerk, the track offers a searing glimpse into gender and desire, as well as the narratives society creates for women. Co-written in Nashville with Bre Kennedy, "Woman" is instantly arresting for its subtle dance between lyrical exactitude and cinematic production.
Lucas pulls you into a meditative realm where openness and insight commingle, and her melodic sense is both cozy and expansive, intimate and inviting. The production, overseen by the celebrated London-based producer Tom Iansek, creates a sense of running space where Lucas's voice, warm, ruminative, and quietly forceful, can carry the emotional heft of the story. "Woman" is a meditation on how patriarchal culture molds relationships and self-perception. "Like a lot of people, I grew up internalising a patriarchal script about sex and relationships that really does not set women up for fulfilling connections," Lucas says.
Based around a period of personal questioning in her early 20s, the song is as much about her own journey of self-discovery and agency. Lucas's art has always been built on the contrast between sharp detail and open-ended wonder, and "Woman" is a fine example of that form. Her lyrics are detailed enough to be intimate yet open enough to resonate universally, an echo of her dual backgrounds, Winnipeg, Canada, where she was born and raised, and Melbourne, Australia, where she currently resides. The geographic and emotional distance that permeates her writing has afforded a rare vantage point on the ideas of memory, growth, and renewal as they relate to her melodic sense.
In terms of music, the song falls right in the middle of the product of Indie Folk, Folk Pop, and Indie Pop, accessible to ordinary people, but still an introspective body of work that is the signature of Lucas. It's a song that sticks, one that soon extends itself to repeat summits, offering new strata of lyrical and emotional depth with every visit. On "Woman," Laura Lucas solidifies her status as a rare, sensitive, and insightful storyteller, offering listeners a song that transcends mere music, delving deep into identity, desire, and the courage it takes to challenge the norms we inherit. It's a daring, essential, and instantly absorbing taster for her debut album.
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