Beautiful Trash feat Megan Washington / der Hotel Blume
“Beautiful Trash” featuring Megan Washington is the first big single from the upcoming 2011 album, ‘Her 12 Faces’ by Lanu.
An irresistible outsider pop nugget, “Beautiful Trash” is being released on upfront limited edition white vinyl on 13th December 2010, two months in advance of the official digital single release in 2011.
The combination of producer/guitarist Lanu (aka The Bamboos’ band leader Lance Ferguson), with one of Australia’s biggest and brightest new musical stars, Megan Washington, has brought about a distilled dose of modern, kooky catchiness with an edge – think the eclectic, crossover appeal of Little Dragon, Feist, Emiliana Torrini, Charlotte Gainsbourg or Janelle Monae.
You may recognise Megan Washington from her vocals on The Bamboos’ hit crossover cover of Kings of Leon’s “King Of The Rodeo” back in 2008. Now signed to Universal, Gold-selling singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Washington has just been awarded two major gongs – Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Artist – at this year’s ARIAs, (Australia’s top annual awards equivalent to the Brits/Mercury Prize/Grammys). Her debut album of idiosyncratic, dramatic indie pop, ‘I Believe You, Liar’, went Gold and shot to no. 1 in the album charts on its release in her native Australia and she is now poised to top ‘next big thing’ lists in the UK and elsewhere.
Lanu is the solo alias of Lance Ferguson, prolific producer and leader of the acclaimed Australian funk band The Bamboos whose fourth album ‘4’ came out in March 2010 and has sold over 20,000 copies and counting. Worldwide radio support includes BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music in the UK, FIP and Nova (France), Triple J (Australia) and KCRW (USA), and widespread press coverage has appeared in The Times, the Independent On Sunday, Notion, Clash, iDJ, Wax Poetics, Rolling Stone and many more international publications.
The B side of this 7”, “Der Hotel Blume”, is a beautiful Lanu production – ‘70s Euro influences given a twist with a sitar line and a dreamy vocalised hook – which will be appearing on the album but receives an exclusive vinyl release here.
“Beautiful Trash” is accompanied by a cute but killer animated video by celebrated director and Australian ‘national treasure’, Lucy Dyson.
The official “Beautiful Trash” digital single package will be out on 7th February 2011 followed by the album, ‘Her 12 Faces’, on 7th March.
