Laney Tripp

Laney Tripp grew up in the sleepy, surf-obsessed Florida enclave of New Smyrna Beach. In combining musing lyrics and folk-y songcraft with an inclination toward experimental soundscapes on previous releases, Tripp has hit on a kind of tropical-folk yin to the yang of Gulf-&-Western artists more often associated with songs that evoke saltwater gallivanting. For her recent project “Cedar Island Songs” Tripp tapped musician and producer Benny Yurco, working out the songs at the experimental wizard’s Burlington, Vermont studio. Joined by Michael Nau (Cotton Jones) Seth Kauffman (Floating Action), and frequent collaborator, the multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist Jacob Cummings, the quintet tracked the EP live, working Tripp’s demos into a distinct brine. It took Tripp and co. a week in the landlocked New-England-state of Vermont to craft the coastline-evoking EP. But both sonically and lyrically, Cedar Island Songs contains a Pacific-Ocean’s-worth of multitudes.