YOUNG & PARANOID

by Ira Lawrence

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Young & Paranoid 01:58
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Lurking From The Sidelines 01:59
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Bedbugs 02:33
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Lime Green 01:53
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One Way Entrance 02:47
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Bryn Mar 02:49
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79 Mimes 02:22
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Hazy In Plural 03:53
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Young & Paranoid - the second album composed entirely on the haunted electric mandolin Ira Lawrence received from his estranged grandmother- features cathartic and distorted post-folk songs about ditch-digging vagabonds, bedbugs, killer cops, mimes, and murderers.

Check out the video for GHOST ROOM featuring LURKING FROM THE SIDELINES: youtu.be/P0l5sG9wT-s

After a brush with Filipino Soap Opera stardom on his summery 2016 debut album MAPAGKAWANGGAWA, Ira returned to New York with no fixed address and fell into a deep depression after the death of David Bowie and his non-estranged grandmother Jean Satisky. Young & Paranoid's raw and emotive songs emerged from an ether of loneliness, loss, displacement, fear for the future, and finding hope in the darkest of times.

Young & Paranoid was self-recorded by Ira in various bedrooms and cat-sitting gigs in Brooklyn between Christmas of 2015 and Christmas 2016. It was mixed and mastered by John Jagos AKA Brothertiger in Greenpoint in March of 2017.

It features: NO GUITARS and NO DRUMS
ONLY IRA LAWRENCE'S HAUNTED MANDOLIN

"That mandolin does sound haunted in a very good way.” –Jens Lekman

“A stringed instrument on an acid trip, being played within a haunted house.”- Soundwaves Review

"Unique and unforced style that cements Lawrence as an artist to be watched“- Artist Direct

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released October 31, 2017

Written, recorded, performed by Ira Lawrence

Mixed & Mastered by John Jagos aka Brothertiger.

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