{"id":11961,"date":"2015-07-09T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=11961"},"modified":"2015-07-09T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T20:31:30","slug":"laurel-returns-with-blue-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/07\/laurel-returns-with-blue-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel Returns with &#8216;Blue Blood&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11966\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/07\/laurel-returns-with-blue-blood\/laurel-blue-blood1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laurel-Blue-Blood1.png?fit=497%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"497,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Laurel Blue Blood1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laurel-Blue-Blood1.png?fit=497%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11966\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laurel-Blue-Blood1.png?resize=640%2C642&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Laurel Blue Blood1\" width=\"640\" height=\"642\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty year old singer\/songwriter\/producer Laurel is set to return with her new single &#8216;Blue Blood&#8217;, which is due \u00a0for release on 31st July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in a small town somewhere between Southampton and Portsmouth, Laurel began performing at the age of 14 and has, so far, released two EPs, &#8216;To The Hills&#8217; and &#8216;Holy Water&#8217;, both to high critical acclaim. Her hauntingly beautiful sound has gained her major airplay in the UK, including being added to the BBC Introducing Playlist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To date, Laurel has sold over 10,000 singles, has had over 4 million plays on Spotify, over 2.5million plays on Soundcloud and over 2 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about her latest track &#8216;Blue Blood&#8217;, Laurel says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I wrote \u0091Blue Blood\u0092 a couple of years ago in my tiny home studio in West London, what started as a rough demo uploaded on Soundcloud has formed into a song which I feel has shaped most of the music I am writing and producing today, as it was the first of its kind from my album. I was lucky enough to record a 24 piece string section at Angel Studios for this song with the amazing Rupert Christie, and have had the awesome Dani Castelar mix my final productions. I am so excited for this to finally be coming out in its final incarnation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laurel is set to release her debut album within the next 12 months and has tour dates planned on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Blue Blood&#8217; by Laurel is due for release on 31st July on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itun.es\/gb\/id8J8?i=1016053962\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information about Laurel visit her Official\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classiclaurel.com%2F&amp;h=-AQFyxK74&amp;s=1\">Website<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ClassicLaurel\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F213621191&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty year old singer\/songwriter\/producer Laurel is set to return with her new single &#8216;Blue Blood&#8217;, which is due  for release on 31st July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[830,2030,2035,2033,2031,77,2034,2032],"class_list":["post-11961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-bbc-introducing","tag-blue-blood","tag-dani-castelar","tag-holy-water","tag-laurel","tag-new-release","tag-rupert-christie","tag-to-the-hills"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-36V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13291,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/08\/laurel-blue-blood\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":0},"title":"Laurel &#8211; &#8216;Blue Blood&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"26\/08\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Laurel is back with the haunting video for her latest song, 'Blue Blood'.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Videos&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Videos","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/videos\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laurel2.png?fit=1200%2C446&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laurel2.png?fit=1200%2C446&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laurel2.png?fit=1200%2C446&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laurel2.png?fit=1200%2C446&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/laurel2.png?fit=1200%2C446&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64210,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/08\/new-single-from-laurel-smith-candy-out-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":1},"title":"New single from Laurel Smith &#8216;Candy&#8217; OUT NOW!","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"02\/08\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Introducing Laurel Smith. 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