Lauren Mayberry shares new track ‘Crocodile Tears’, confirms ‘Vicious Creature’ release date 

A few weeks on from confirming details of her debut solo album, Lauren Mayberry has now shared its release date: the darkly-titled ‘Vicious Creature’ is set for release on 6th December via EMI.

The twelve-track record will include previously-released tracks including ‘Are You Awake?’, which launched her solo era last year, as well as more recent cuts ‘Shame’, ‘Change Shapes’ and ‘Something in the Air’, which landed earlier this month. “So much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition – something I really trained myself out of,” Lauren has said, in a press release. “That’s ultimately why you start making things – because you felt a feeling, and you wanted to articulate that somehow. I think it was important for me to relearn that kind of independence, and recognise what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.”

Today, Lauren has also shared another new track from the record in the form of ‘Crocodile Tears’, an ’80s-imbued song written with Matthew Koma and Ethan Gruska, which sees Mayberry take on “a sort of character where I could really let go of the idea that I need to be ‘nice,’ because I think that holds so many women back in their lives,” she explains. “If I didn’t have to be seen as ‘nice,’ I would feel comfortable telling certain people to fuck off when they treat me like shit – on this record, and in these songs, I get to do that.” 

Listen to ‘Crocodile Tears’, and dig into the full tracklisting for ‘Vicious Creature’, below.