Shannon Lay has a new single out today that doesn’t seem to be part of an album rollout. Or at least, if “Mirrors” is part of a new album, it’s getting its own little celebration first in the form of a release show next week in Los Angeles. Lay’s latest is a throwback pop song with a vocal melody and woodwind parts that send me back to at least the 1970s. It’s real soft and pretty, and she has this to say about it:

It takes radical vulnerability to see and recognize your whole self in a compassionate light. To accept that you deserve peace and to realize it’s right on the other side of being with what you resist. There is nothing wrong with us, we are unique and beautiful and chaotic just like the stars we come from. Love is available at all times and you are its strongest source. Admire your growth as you would any other part of nature. Look up and see your reflection in the sky.

“Mirrors” was created the first day that Rob Shelton and I sat down in the studio to write together. Rob is one of the amazing owners and engineers of Altamira Sound in Alhambra, CA, a place I fell in love with as I watched it be built during the pandemic and that further won my heart when I recorded “Covers Vol. 1” there. Rob started playing piano and I started writing lyrics and from there “Mirrors” expanded into such an incredible collaboration.”

Watch director Kai MacKnight’s “Mirrors” video below.

TOUR DATES:
05/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers (single release show)
05/12 – Austin, TX @ Live In The church 414 W Johanna
05/14 – Austin, TX @ Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
05/17 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center
05/18 – Big Sur, CA @ Hipnic Festival