Los Angeles-based band Rah Rah Rabbit are releasing their debut EP, Ghosts, this Friday, February 2nd, 2024 via Blackbird Record Label. They specialize in blending Americana and Cosmic Country, but also span Folk, Roots, and psychedelia.
The band is comprised of six musicians and frontwoman Laura Anne Lacy (also known as Rabbit) has navigated a musical career spanning over 15 years in and around Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert. Rabbit is the driving force behind the band’s original songwriting.
Today, we’re very pleased to debut a track from the upcoming EP, “Doin’ Time”, here on Wildfire Music + News. It’s a song that has deep connections to the EP itself, including the inspiration for the EP’s title.
“Doin’ Time” is a warm and engaging song whose rolling rhythm suggests the passage of time and also a somewhat upbeat attitude to the challenges of life. Only gradually does the track circling around the idea that the challenge might be one’s own history and oneself. Even drawing near to that sobering truth, “Doin’ Time” preserves a sense of hope, maybe for the future, but maybe just for human beings because they truly desire change.
The “doin’ time” of the song’s title relates to the idea of being stuck with oneself, and also, geographically, in one place, and Laura Anne Lacy casually suggests a sense of place through references to California and sunlight. The freshness of the elemental imagery also extends to the hope for change, looking for rain “to get me clean again.”
Something that makes the song particularly accessible is its live performance sound and energy, a lightness to the delivery that allows the audience to approach and consider the movement of the music more closely. There’s also some top-notch instrumentation and playing which might encourage the audience to dance, even in the face of the personal struggle the song references.
“Doin’ Time” is a track that’s introspective, but in an extroverted, unselfconscious way that rightly assumes that audiences might relate to a feeling of being burdened by the past the past and needing some hope for renewal.
Laura Lacy, aka Rabbit, shares about the song:
‘Doin’ Time was written after a very transformative period in my life. In a way it encapsulates that feeling that comes with growth and change and how that can feel stagnant and moving all at the same time. I think about this particular line in the bridge of the song almost everyday: “There’s ghosts all over this town, and they look just like me. Sometimes I wish I could sit them down and talk to them.”
That line is really about growing up in the same town I’ve lived in my entire life (I was born and raised in Los Angeles) and how every neighborhood holds a memory of myself in some shape or form, almost haunting me as I go about my day. I’ve been so many different versions of myself in this city, sometimes I wish I could just sit down and talk with those ghosts. That line also inspired the title of the EP Ghosts because each of these songs on the EP acts the same way, like a phantom of a memory or a time or a feeling that has slipped in and out of my life but never really leaves.
Rah Rah Rabbit will also be playing a release show for their EP on February 2nd, 2024 in Los Angeles at The Silver Lake Lounge.
