Laurie Cave was born in the United Kingdom, but we’re pretty lucky he’s decided to call Naarm/Melbourne home. He’s just released his debut single “Nobody Could Ever Love You”, one of the catchiest rock songs I’ve heard in some time. You can hear the Sam Fender influence coming through, but there’s something about Laurie that sets him apart.
“This song is heavily inspired by ‘Seventeen Going Under’ by Sam Fender – a song that completely transfixed me”, Laurie explains. “It felt like Sam was making the music and expressing the things that I have always wanted to. In some ways, it is a homage to his song.”
He added that “This release is about doing ‘the work’ and facing up to the demons of early childhood and a ‘mis-spent youth’ of drug use and avoidance. It’s about the moment when you finally accept that you have to go to the deep and dark places to work through your trauma.”
I hear he’s got a stack of material that he’s waiting to unleash, so we can expect to hear a lot more from Laurie in the coming months.
Image used with permission from Habit Music Co.; credit: Casey Horsfield