Lera Lynn

March 2nd , 2016 - Lera Lynn is to release her brand new​ album Resistor on April 29, a record that embraces the darker and more provocative sides of her songwriting across 10 brand new compositions. Lynn and her co-producer, Joshua Grange, play nearly every instrument on the album, which was tracked during a series of spontaneous, experimental recording sessions in Nashville. While her celebrated US sophomore album The Avenues couched Lynn's voice in layers of pedal steel and other folky instruments, Resistor takes a different approach, focusing on texture rather than twang.

Rolling Stone, in the USA, premiered the album’s first single “Shape Shifter,” saying it’s “evocative of everything from Nineties girl-band alt-rock like Veruca Salt and the Breeders to modern artists like St. Vincent and Fiona Apple, who approach composition with a sense of fearless play while never forgetting a good pop melody's undeniable pull.”

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From the percussive pulse of "Shape Shifter" to the greasy, slow-motion strut of "Little Ruby," to "Drive," the album's most propulsive track conjuring up images of late-night road trips through the American desert, and songs like "Fade Into the Black" and "For the Last Time" which sway and swoon, occupying the intersection where slow dances, lullabies and the soundtrack of David Lynch's Blue Velvet all seem to connect.

“Resistor has this otherworldly quality to it, this darkness, this sense of atmosphere and space,” says Lynn. “We used a lot of baritone guitar, which at once roots and spears through everything, with the vocals floating above and around. There's a slow-burning intensity that at times sounds a little spooky. It's creepy and lovely."

Resistor will be the first release on Lynn's own label Resistor Music in conjunction with SFE through Caroline Distribution both in the US and Europe.  It follows her 2014 USA release of her critically-acclaimed sophomore album, The Avenues. Lynn spent 2015 in a creative whirlwind, kicking off the year with an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman and, months later, wrapping things up with a 39-date headlining fall tour. Along the way, she also played a role in shaping the dark direction of True Detective's second season, both appearing in the popular HBO series as a barroom singer and contributing a handful of original songs to the show's soundtrack. The response was overwhelming. True Detective's teaser trailer, which featured a clip of Lynn's "The Only Thing Worth Fighting For" (co-written with Rosanne Cash and T Bone Burnett), racked up more than 35 million views in a matter of months, giving Lynn the assurance that a wide audience did, indeed, exist for her brand of otherworldly music. In January 2016, Lynn played sold out shows in London and Russia, as well as packed sets in Leeds and at the Celtic Connections festival.