Mechanical Bride

Mechanical Bride

Mechanical Bride is the singer-songwriter Lauren Doss, based in Brighton. Her work sits in classic pop and rock, and she is also described in the context of folk and singer-songwriter music, with a sound associated with distant, lonely, ambient and hypnotic songwriting. She is compared to Björk.

Releases

She releases In the Throes, which includes the songs “Chapel”, “Poor Boy” and “Love Is Lost”. Her EP Black Skeleton Sea is also part of her catalogue.

Collaborations and live work

Mechanical Bride duets with Larrikin Love on “Well, Love Does Furnish A Life (or A Day In the Life)”. She also performs live regularly with Jeremy Warmsley.

Label association

Transgressive Records includes her in its “Tips For 2007” list, describing her singing as forceful, bracing, ambient, hypnotic and sumptuous, with songs that are downbeat, occasionally hopeful and always beautiful.