NEW YORK SONGWRITER, LAWRENCE KIM ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM, THE HOURS AND THE TIMES FOR MAY 15 RELEASE
New York City-based songwriter Lawrence Kim today announces his solo debut album The Hours And The Times for a May 15release, sharing the lead single “Madeleine” with a video shot on super 8 by directorMeredith Truax. The video premiered earlier today via MAGNET.
The one-time BMX Bandits, Scam Avenue and The Amber Smith member and touring guitarist for Ryn Weaver took his time to get to this solo debut. “I like being in bands,” he notes. “It’s like being in a gang. Us versus the world.”
“I had written some songs, and I didn’t want to go through the hassle of finding people to play them with, rehearsing, and all the rest of it. So I decided to do as much of it as I could on my own.” Which perhaps is fitting, given the theme of the album.
“It’s an album about being alone—which isn’t necessarily the same thing as being lonely. I didn’t set out to make an album around that, but that’s what I ended up with.”
Lawrence wrote, produced, arranged, played, and sang most of the album, but he wasn’t flying completely solo.
“I decided to rope in as many pals as I could, to lend some variety to the proceedings. And thank God I did, because they give the songs a depth they wouldn’t have had otherwise.”
The various guests include enigmatic chanteuse Emma Tricca, drummer extraordinaire Kid Millions (Oneida, People of the North), psychedelic bluegrass belter Rachel Cox(Oakley Hall), singer/songwriter/filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, sax ace Stephen Chen (Ghost Funk Orchestra, San Fermin), multi-instrumentalist Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), Vincent D’Onofrio collaborator Dana Lyn, and more.
Regarding lead single, “Madeleine”, Lawrence simply states,
“It’s a song about living in your own world. Like a lot of good songs it came to me relatively quickly, and I think this is one of the best songs I’ve ever written.”