Lauren Pritchard

Lauren Pritchard is a singer-songwriter from Seattle. Her music often gets called alternative folk, with a sound built around spare guitar and lyrics that lean into introspection. Songs like 'As Shadows do' and 'Painkillers' show her leaning into that mood, where the arrangements stay open and the vocals sit up front.

She put out her first album, 'Was It Something I Said?', in 2013. That was followed by 'The Fog' in 2014, 'Orchid Tapes' in 2017, and 'When The World Ends' in 2020. The writing tends to circle themes of love and loss without much ornament, which gives it a direct, sometimes haunting quality.

Pritchard has mentioned Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan as early influences. You can hear that in the way she structures a song, keeping the focus on the lyric and the melody. It's music that doesn't rush to fill the space.