Lawrence Kim
NYC-based musician Lawrence Kim will release his debut solo album, 'The Hours and The Times', on May 15. Kim wrote, produced, arranged, played, and sang most of the album, but he wasn’t flying completely solo. “I decided to rope in as many pals as I could, to lend some variety to the proceedings. And thank God I did, because they give the songs a depth they wouldn’t have had otherwise.” Along with Kid Millions, Russell, Tricca and Cox, Kim was also joined in the studio at various points by singer/songwriter/filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, sax ace Stephen Chen (Ghost Funk Orchestra, San Fermin), multi-instrumentalist Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), and Vincent D’Onofrio collaborator Dana Lyn.
Kim has always felt more at home being in a band. Reveling in the camaraderie. But finding himself settling into a post-lockdown solitary state, a solo album finally mentally felt right. “It’s an album about being alone—which isn’t the necessarily the same thing as being lonely,” Kim notes. “I didn’t set out to make an album around that, but that’s what I ended up with.”
In the mid-90s Kim found himself in Edinburgh ostensibly at university but also playing in the acclaimed BMX Bandits, including their 1996, Kim Fowley produced Theme Park LP for Creation Records. In the 2000s, back in New York, he he fronted power poppers The Amber Smith, before masterminding the critically-acclaimed synthpop act Scam Avenue in the late ‘10s/early ‘20s, while also finding time to be part of wunderkind chart threat (and Charli XCX collaborator) Ryn Weaver’s touring band.
Kim has always felt more at home being in a band. Reveling in the camaraderie. But finding himself settling into a post-lockdown solitary state, a solo album finally mentally felt right. “It’s an album about being alone—which isn’t the necessarily the same thing as being lonely,” Kim notes. “I didn’t set out to make an album around that, but that’s what I ended up with.”
In the mid-90s Kim found himself in Edinburgh ostensibly at university but also playing in the acclaimed BMX Bandits, including their 1996, Kim Fowley produced Theme Park LP for Creation Records. In the 2000s, back in New York, he he fronted power poppers The Amber Smith, before masterminding the critically-acclaimed synthpop act Scam Avenue in the late ‘10s/early ‘20s, while also finding time to be part of wunderkind chart threat (and Charli XCX collaborator) Ryn Weaver’s touring band.
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