Laney Tripp is brewing a quiet storm. Florida born and LA-based, Tripp fittingly makes music for the road, for walking along a coast at sunrise, for the comedown after nights lit by woozy fluorescence. Her songs earnestly tell stories of love, independence, and breaking cycles, tailored to tug at the heartstrings.
Tripp’s most recent releases, the EP “Cedar Island Songs,” as well as the 2021 collaborative album “Fishing from Heaven” crafted with fellow Florida native Jacob Cummings, best epitomize her signature sound, a soft and sensible indie twang infused with Southern charm. A sense of serenity exudes from both of these records, with the use of environmental sounds and textures, such as raindrops, tickling the senses and evoking the feeling of being present in nature. Notably, the entirety of “Cedar Island Songs” was recorded live and produced over the course of a week in coastal Vermont, and the raw balance achieved is almost tangible. These atmospherically lush tracks, varnished with Tripp’s wistfully brilliant vocal delivery, serve as reminders that magic, romance, and music exist in the mundane, in every blade of grass, crackling campfire, or bubbling tide.
And Tripp’s storm is not dying down anytime soon. Hints of an upcoming album have been dropping on her social media, and there is no doubt that this new release will continue her steady streak of sensitively beautiful works verging on indie masterpieces.
Written by Lauryn Natalia