Brighton-via-New-Jersey artist Lonnie Gunn has announced her debut EP, 2013 horsemeat scandal, out independently August 6th, led by new single “Babytooth”.
Co-written with Oscar Lang, the track pushes further into pop-rock than her earlier work, with vocal turns and glitch textures that recall Mitski and Caroline Polachek. Gunn says it’s about becoming so dependent on someone’s approval that you shrink around them, losing your own shape entirely. The title comes from her childhood toy, a stuffed lamb apparently
It fits the EP’s wider themes. Written over a year Gunn describes as spent “in constant flux between nostalgia and grief,” the seven tracks include earlier singles like “Good Girls Go to Heaven” and “photocopy” songs she’s called “bubblegum grunge,” pairing melody with distortion. Fiona Apple, Karen O and Deerhunter are the obvious touchstones, though Gunn’s version feels more anxious than any of them, less concerned with cool.
She’s already had a good year playing bigger venues with a support slot with TTSSFU, an opening set for Kim Gordon at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Next up is an EP release show at The Rossi Bar in Brighton on August 7th, plus a short run of UK dates.
2013 horsemeat scandal is out August 6th, available to pre-save now.
Tracklist
- “I Miss Everything”
- “Photocopy”
- “Babytooth”
- “Pink Butterfly Wing”
- “Taxidermy Swan”
- “Good Girls Go to Heaven”
- “glow in the dark star”
Live Dates
15 Jul – The Shacklewell Arms, London (free entry)
7 Aug – The Rossi Bar, Brighton (EP release party)
4 Sep – Brighton Psych Fest, Brighton
12 Sep – Escape to the City, St. Albans