River’s Edge Releases New Album Titled Lul-Her-by

4 APRIL 2016

River’s Edge Releases New Album Titled Lul-Her-by

Rivers Edge will be performing an intimate show at the Wine Cellar in Auckland to release his new album Lul-her-by.

“All of the songs on this album were written and recorded nude”, laughs Chris Rivers “I was emotionally naked, and without a band. My feelings wrote these songs”Lul-her-by is a collection of songs written during a period when Rivers was having a bad time in the dating scene. “I fell in and out of love heavily. I was gutted, disappointed, and let down. But then love arrived again. So there’s a mixed bag of emotions throughout the album.”

Rivers says he wrote to get his emotions out and to find comfort. At the time he never intended anyone to hear the songs. However, when he recently decided to put out a retrospective album to celebrate twenty years of writing music, he felt that the songs that make up Lul-her-by were timeless. These songs of unrequited love, lost love, and the comfort of love, were not only very personal but also universal. River’s is now comfortable to share this music. As he’s aged he’s no longer afraid of making himself emotionally vulnerable.

River’s soul isn’t the only one who striped down for this recording. He hasn’t overdressed the album with excess production. All songs were tracked live to resemble the early essential naked thoughts, to be real, not dressed up, or fake. “I tried to record untouched naked songs in their purest form.”

He describes the sound on the album as a “Neil Young Live string feel, played behind the beat which creates relaxed time and space”. Other influences on this album are Beck’s Sea Change, Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and the ethereal world of Nick Drake.

Lul-her-by is Rivers third album.

Lul-her-by Album Release:

The Wine Cellar

8pm, 6 April 2016

$10.00 entry with free album

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