Since 2001, Laura have been producing music described as emotive, intense, cinematic, atmospheric and chaotic. throughout several line up changes they have performed their signature wall of sound live sets to countless melbourne audiences.
Noted japanese engineer Naomune Anzai, produced all 3 albums - Mapping Your Dreams (2005), Radio Swan is Down (2006) and their latest release - a live album titled (re)capitulate - recorded at Melbourne's HiFi Bar while touring with ISIS in early 2007.
The radio-only single from (re)capitulate, radio swan is down part 1 (available as free mp3 download), has been getting intensive play around australia, and was also awarded Beat Magazine 'Single of the Week'.
Beat said:
"Recorded live at the HiFi Bar, Radio Swan has a crashing scope: violins, guitars and piano thundering against the back of a vast hall and folding back on themselves. The single from Laura's forthcoming live album has a haunted Gaelic air and a murderous edge, and confirms Laura as the rightful heirs to the Dirty Three and all their instrumental glory."
Other people have said.....
“Their massive wall of sound paralyses the room with awe…They’re like a hit of LSD – you can’t stop it or control it, you just flow with it until it ends abruptly, leaving you naked and disoriented.” – Brag Magazine
“Mapping Your Dreams drips in ethereal, other worldly wall of soundness.” – Rave Magazine
"The first tune in a long time to send a wave of goosebumps down my back." - Beat Magazine (single of the year review 2004)
“…this album is beautiful and affecting as the sight of some majestic natural spectacle.” - Inpress Magazine
Laura are:
Nathan Biggin: piano, synth, guitars, noises
Andrew Chalmers: guitars, voice, noises
David Gagliardi: drums, glockenspiel, percussion, voice, noises
Caz Gannell: cello, violin, string noises
Andrew Yardley: bass, sampler, noises
Ben Yardley: guitars, noises
