Laura Jean Anderson Releases LOVE YOU MOST Debuts with The FADER

Today, Los Angeles-based artist Laura Jean Anderson has released brand new single "Love You Most." The song debuted today with The FADER here and is out now via B3SCI Records here.

A lush ballad putting Laura Jean's powerhouse vocal at the forefront alongside sweeping melodies and a textured instrumental, "Love You Most" is the 2nd offering from Laura Jean Anderson and a confident new glimpse of her songwriting depth.

On the track, Laura Jean describes, "This song is about someone I loved who was with someone else. I wrote it when traveling, as my mind began spiraling down a rabbit hole of all the irrational things I would do to win them over. Though the song feels light hearted, as if happily in love, it is actually a reflection of deep heartbreak and denial. In life, I often feel like I can't spit out the words I want to say, but in song, I can do and say anything that I want, spilling out my darkest desires."

The track follows the release of spring 2018 debut single "Silence Won't Help Me Now," which has impacted as a much-needed rally cry for the voiceless in today's tumultuous times. First debuting with NPR / All Songs Considered, the track embodies Laura Jean's struggle resisting societal confines and breaking away from her conservative Mormon upbringing. The song's message was further reflected in the striking official video, which Noisey described as "equally powerful," giving the track a new, jarring visual context.

Of the song, she describes, "The song started with how frustrated I felt being told I can't do what I want as a woman. Once the election happened that feeling of frustration heightened and I felt like my hope dwindled, like I'd never be heard or understood. So I finished the song as an anthem to speak up - a personal pep talk to stand up for the things I believe in." Laura Jean further detailed the song and video's backstory in an exclusive interview with Salon here.

Born one of five kids in Olympia, Washington where grunge was king and liberal hippies thrived, Laura Jean was raised strictly Mormon, a stark dichotomy that inflicts her art to this day with a deep-seated poignancy. By her mid-teens, she began to form her own differing views and music was her first outlet for rebellion. First honing her vocal skill in church choirs through childhood, a bronchitis-riden audition led to a chance acceptance to California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) prompting a move to California to study classical voice. She made her way working odd jobs, busking, and playing live in any capacity - a testament to her reverence and embodiment of classic blue collar musicians of yore (Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, etc) who built careers on painstaking hard work and rooted in all things live.

After a break from school involving farm work in South America, found love and subsequent heartbreak,berry farming in Washington state, and residing in a hippie commune, Laura Jean moved back to L.A. to finish school at CalArts. Since then, she's lived in various artist compounds on L.A.'s east side throwing pop-up house shows, always surrounded by musicians, always performing.

Catch Laura Jean Anderson live next August 2 in Los Angeles @ Levitt Pavilion as part of their summer concert series.

Until then, stream new single, "Love You Most," out now at the links below.

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