{"id":857,"date":"2019-09-03T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=857"},"modified":"2019-09-03T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:22:40","slug":"hands-off-gretel-singer-lauren-tate-set-to-release-new-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Hands Off Gretel singer Lauren Tate set to release new solo album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lauren Tate, the singer with one of the UK\u2019s most hotly-tipped up-and-coming alternative\u00a0 bands, Hands Off Gretel, is set to release a new solo album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?resize=640%2C960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-promo-picture.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Hands Off Gretel singer Lauren Tate.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songs For Sad Girls will be released on 20 September via her own Trash Queen Records, and it promises to be a very different sound to her main band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tate, 22, is a singer-songwriter, producer, director and artist from Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The eldest of three siblings, she was a secondary school dropout, writing and self-producing music from her bedroom from the age of 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hands-off-gretel.jpg?resize=640%2C457\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hands-off-gretel.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hands-off-gretel.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Hands Off Gretel performing at Rebellion Festival 2019 in Blackpool. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delving into many musical genres, singing hard-rock and grunge-punk in Hands Off Gretel, she has stripped back to a softer, raw Americana sad-pop sound with Songs For Sad Girls, her first solo effort in five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recorded and self-produced 11 of the 14 tracks\u00a0in her home studio, and designed the artwork and merchandise, which led BBC Introducing presenter Christian Carlisle to call her a \u201cone-woman record label\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI planned to get my album\nproduced by someone when I could afford it, but there was a certain magic and\nhonesty captured in my recordings&nbsp;that I knew would really move people,\u201d\nshe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-album.jpg?resize=640%2C634\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-album.jpg?resize=1024%2C1014&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-album.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-album.jpg?resize=300%2C297&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-album.jpg?resize=768%2C760&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate-album.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Songs For Sad Girls (Trash Queen Records).<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy lyrics are honest and brutal, with songs about domestic abuse, body image, feminism and fear of dying.\u00a0I wanted it to sound like a girl writing in her diary, unapologetic and imperfect like real girls are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u200bTwo singles have already been released from the album, with the latest being What About the Kids, which has its own music video, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gADf_Sectl0 \"><strong>which you can watch HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8221;The song is from a child&#8217;s\npoint of view speaking to her father addressing gun violence in America,\u201d she\nsays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted the song to highlight issues around gun control and the importance of children&#8217;s future in a world where nobody is listening to them. I wrote this song to sing for those that won&#8217;t ever get the chance to do so.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate.jpg?resize=640%2C569\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate.jpg?resize=1024%2C911&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate.jpg?resize=300%2C267&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate.jpg?resize=768%2C684&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lauren-tate.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Lauren Tate began writing songs as a teenager.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The album has a softer sound than Hands Off Gretel&#8217;s grunge-rock, and should appeal to fans of artists as varied as Pink, Sia, Lana Del Rey and Amanda Palmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can pre-order the album at<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurentate.co.uk\/\">Lauren Tate\u2019s website HERE<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Tate, the singer with one of the UK\u2019s most hotly-tipped up-and-coming alternative\u00a0 bands, Hands Off Gretel, is set to release a new 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