24 Hour Blogathon : Law - Haters

We’re now 21 hours into our 24 hour blogathon and reaching the home straight. The end is in sight and we’ve raised far more money than we ever dreamed of. It’s actually been quite incredible. As things stand the readers and friends of Breaking More Waves and Alphabet Bands blogs have raised £1300 pounds for Cancer Research. 

But we’re not done yet. Here’s a new track from Law who we first featured last June with the clattering Hustle. Now she’s back with a new song Haters, which doesn’t seem a particularly apt sentiment right now as we’re feeling a lot of love for readers of this blog. However, despite the title, Haters is a nifty piece of alt-soul-pop and contains the lines “don’t wanna press you boo, I like ya,” so actually, everything is OK. Imagine Laura Mvula throwing caution to the wind and getting experimental. That’s what Haters sounds like and it gets better and better as it goes on. Maybe it’s because we’re sleep deprived, maybe it’s because the end is in sight and we’re pretty happy about that, but whatever, right now this sounds f*ckin’ fantastic.

Law’s Haters and Gangsters EP is out on Monday 3rd Feb and she’ll also be touring with Young Fathers this month.

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Law - Haters

Law - New Waves

With some murky electronics, handclap style beats and a voice that sounds like a drugged up Nina Simone or Laura Mvula rocking your earlobes, you are entering the intriguing musical world of Edinburgh based artist Law, real name Lauren Holt.

Law blew up on a number of blogs back in April but we’ve taken a little longer by new music blogger standards to get round to posting about her. It was of course inevitable that Law would eventually make these pages though, because she’s Scottish, she’s making sounds with laptops and most importantly she has a name beginning with L. These are all things that we love and although music is never just a box ticking exercise (emotional connection doesn’t work as simply as that and music is all about connecting with people), hitting a few of the right spots straight away can certainly help. Law now joins the Breaking More Waves L-club that includes Lana Del Rey, Laura Marling, Laura Mvula, Lorde, Lucy Rose, Laurel and even one of our favourite bands of the year Chvrches (OK, not technically an L but they are the masters of bad spelling and they do have a lead singer who is also a Lauren).

Currently there’s just the one song by Law (Hustle) on line, which has hooked us in with its clattering rhythm and unique almost unintelligible vocal, accompanied by a rather odd looking, grainy VHS style video which streams below. If you want to hear more, for the moment you’ll have to catch her live. She’s just starting to play a few shows, and whilst she doesn’t appear to have a Facebook account or website with much information you can connect with her via Twitter.

Law - Hustle