Remember GirlBlueSTL's Recap on Sol Village? A petite NJ native, once on Diddy's Starmaker, who goes by the name of Lauriana Mae stepped up to the stage and surprised everyone. She donned a throwback outfit, some curly blonde locks (I googled her to get her name right when she hit the stage, and a long black-haired girl showed up in the results. Same person!) and her own traveling band--The Pains.
Her sound was throwback to the flapper era. A sort of loud symphony blowing towards the ear-drum. She told a story about shaking your tail-feather to a Money Mae-ker, then croon-cried to love lost and/or lacking, not specific, with the violin missing (that would be cliché). Then she spoke about beating it like a drum in the bedroom, and what it takes to be "her guy." Needless to say, nostalgic vibrato against hefty production had done her well.
Now she has released a gift just in time for Christmas: The Love Mae EP. Three tracks is more than enough to crossover the most stout opposer (One can imagine this opposer getting all the words stuck in his head and singing them at random times for reasons he knows not). The girl doesn't disappoint. So take a listen, and don't stray too far...because there's more where this came from. --GB
