Lauren Mayberry, the frontwoman for acclaimed electro-pop band CHVRCHES, recently released her debut solo album, Vicious Creature, via Island Records.
Now on tour to support the album, Lauren performs at 9:30 Club on Tuesday, Feb. 18, returning to the site of her very first solo performance!
Prior the album’s release, Lauren broke out on her own in a solo concert at 9:30 Club in September 2023, giving eager fans a glimpse of things to come. Now, she returns with Vicious Creature, her full-length solo album, under her belt.
Vicious Creature is both a startling new era in Mayberry’s artistry and the culmination of two decades of life in a band that came before. Across its songs, she writes about sexuality and empowerment from a profoundly personal perspective for the very first time, reconnecting with the icons of her youth — Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, and Kathleen Hanna as well as ‘90s British girl groups such as All Saints and Sugababes, whose music made a formative impact on her in the 2000s.
“So much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition — something I really trained myself out of,” Mayberry said. “That’s ultimately why you start making things — because you felt a feeling, and you wanted to articulate that somehow. I think it was important for me to relearn that kind of independence and recognize what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.”
Over the course of the past year, Mayberry has been sharing songs from the new record, including “Crocodile Tears,” “Something in the Air,” “Shame,” “Change Shapes,” and “Are You Awake?”
Watch the official music video for “Something in the Air” by Lauren Mayberry on YouTube:
For her first full-length release outside of CHVRCHES, Mayberry sought freedom: from rules, expectations, and preconceptions. Working with prolific producers like Greg Kurstin, Matthew Korma, Tobias Jesso Jr., Ethan Gruska, and Dan McDougall, she accessed not only a new world of inspiration but the deep well of creativity she’s had within her all along.
Mayberry has been in bands since she was 15 and has enjoyed monumental success with CHVRCHES, which has accrued more than 1.7 billion global streams to date and a string of awards and nominations. When starting work on Vicious Creature, her goal was to push herself harder than ever before to excavate a new level of musical truth from the depths of her creative soul and to create a record that accessed joy and theatricality in a way she hadn’t been able to in her previous projects.
Lauren Mayberry
W/ Cult of Venus
9:30 Club
Tuesday, Feb. 18
Doors @ 6:30pm
$35
All ages
