Lavender Diamond Release New Song "Turn Around" Bonus Track From Re-release of New Album Now Is The Time Out Now on Petaluma Records |
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May 14, 2021: Today, the Los Angeles-based chamber-pop band Lavender Diamond released a new song “Turn Around,” a bonus track from the digital re-release of Now Is The Time, their first studio album in more than 8 years out now via Petaluma Records. Listen to “Turn Around” via YouTube: “This song is about reversal - the experience of finding the end - of being in the free fall of loss and despair - and that end point being a beginning through the turning,” explains Becky Stark. “When we were making the record I didn’t think this song should be part of it, but sometime after we were finished I realized it was my favorite one. It had seemed so raw that I couldn’t bear it. But isn’t that the way? It can feel impossible to see the beauty in what is full of pain - but new joy can be created and found in the turn around.” Now Is The Time was written and produced entirely by Lavender Diamond, the trio of Becky Stark, Steve Gregoropoulos and Ron Regé, Jr., and mixed by Tucker Martine at Flora Recording & Playback in Portland, OR. The album features contributions from Nathaniel Walcott (Bright Eyes), Sasami and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. The album has been embraced by BrooklynVegan, NPR's All Songs Considered, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and many more. In their winter 2021 print issue, BUST reviewed the album and said "the album weaves acoustic rock, electronic and orchestral pop seamlessly into their own unique sound" and proclaimed "now's definitely the time for this soul-soothing, musical magic." Acclaim for Now Is The Time: “The first new music in eight years from Lavender Diamond. It's a thrill to hear” - NPR All Songs Considered “an upward theatrical twirl, filled with strings and Stark’s uplifted vocals” - Stereogum "Filled with songs for healing, dreaming, and seizing a moment and making it better, Now Is the Time speaks to its era — and Lavender Diamond's enduring strengths — eloquently” - AllMusic “Now Is the Time is a stunning collection of baroque pop that delves into issues of healing both nature and humanity” - Audiofemme "the album weaves acoustic rock, electronic and orchestral pop seamlessly into their own unique sound… now's definitely the time for this soul-soothing, musical magic" - BUST Magazine (Four stars) “What we have here is a beautiful piece of work: a collection of songs in a style that might be described as chamber-pop. Floating through and above all this is Stark’s remarkable voice, a thing of considerable purity and range ..strong, true, lucid — an incredible source of energy that provides both warmth and light” - Financial Times of London “At a time of sledgehammer oppression, Stark floats above it like a butterfly” - UNCUT “Becky Stark sings in the key of hope” - Buzz Bands LA Lavender Diamond: |
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