NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) On their new album 'Good Morning, America', Lawrence Rothman set out to create a sonic world that reverses course from the seemingly omnipresent injustices of recent times, building a landscape that places emphasis on equality and freedom of expression above all - where "you don't have to check a male or female box ever again and bands can sound like
Tom Petty and Anohni on the same record." In many ways, that makes this new eleven-song collection from Rothman, out July 16 on their own KRO Records, a mission statement on the world as it ought to be in the post-pandemic, post-Trump era. Co-produced by Yves Rothman (Miya Folick, Yves Tumor) and Justin Raisen (Charli XCX,
Angel Olsen, Sky Ferreira), and teaming with like-minded collaborators across genres and generations like Girlpool, Mary Lattimore, Pino Palladino, Katie Pruitt, Caroline Rose,
Amanda Shires, and Lucinda Williams, 'Good Morning, America' purges the isolation, toxic masculinity and pain of the past year in search of a new dawn. Listen to 'Thrash The West'' (feat.
Amanda Shires) here:
https://youtu.be/JNfVoeDryWE
"'Thrash The West' details how I came to terms with the childhood trauma of sexual abuse from a teacher, and how I found an opportunity to heal after decades through a chance meeting with a poet/healer whom had been through the same experience," says Rothman. "Through many FaceTime sessions during COVID, this helped me find a new solace and healing from the fracases of pain. I then wrote the song 'Thrash The West' about coming to terms with, and finding a new way to compartmentalize the demon that has haunted me."
On the collaboration,
Amanda Shires explains, 'This past year has been a lot, but one saving grace was the opportunity to collaborate with Lawrence Rothman. It was a real pleasure to sing with someone so unreservedly creative. Lawrence is a light. They are a student of the human condition and what it means to love what you love and be who you are. Also, their voice...swoon. '
Pre-order 'Good Morning, America' here: https://orcd.co/goodmorningamerica
Inspired by many of Rothman's own life experiences during the pandemic, from spending weeks back at a family lake house in Missouri's Ozarks to working through their childhood traumas - the collection finds Rothman "putting my most inner, conflicting thoughts and experiences into song." The album was mostly written remotely with collaborators over video calls and was recorded in a series of unconventional spaces like an abandoned mall outside of Los Angeles and a rug shop in Nashville - exploring intensely personal lyrical territory that, in Rothman's words, "I have never written about in a song, poem or even diary."
'Good Morning, America' follows Rothman's critically beloved 2017 debut 'The Book of Law,' which prompted Pitchfork to proclaim 'after working behind the scenes as a producer on albums like
Angel Olsen's 'My Woman,' Rothman comes fully into focus now' and additional projects as a producer, film composer, novelist, actor and poet. Since the release of 'Book of Law,' Rothman has produced Marissa Nadler's 'For My Crimes,' Kim Gordon's 'No Home Record,' and the 2020 star-studded 'The Turning' soundtrack featuring Mitski, Cherry Glazzer, Kali Uchis, Kim Gordon, Warpaint and Soccer Mommy. Rothman has also scored a number of film projects including: the New York Times' 'Great Performers' series which featured Timothee Chalamet, Jake Gyllenhaal,
Daniel Kaluuya,
Nicole Kidman, and Saoirse Ronan among others; a short on the life of cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger for Gucci; and other projects for the TATE Modern, Barbican Centre and more.
Rothman previously shared 'Decent Man,' their song with
Lucinda Williams from 'Good Morning, America,' in late 2020. Listen here: https://orcd.co/lrdecentman
Good Morning,
America Tracklist
Thrash the West (feat.
Amanda Shires)
Benadryl and Cereal
Breathe (feat. Caroline Rose)
The Fix
My Body is a Perfect Storm
Decent Man (feat. Lucinda Williams)
Dear L.A.
Glory (feat. Katie Pruitt)
Sexless in Your Bedroom
Not a Son
Homesiick
