LAWRENCE ROTHMAN RELEASES BRAND NEW SINGLE “KARMAKAZE”
Accompanying Music Video Out Today
New Album ‘Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust’ Out September 25th
Credit: Mary Rozzi
NEW YORK, NY. – Acclaimed singer-songwriter and producer Lawrence Rothman today unveils a new song, “Karmakaze”, featuring longtime collaborator Amanda Shires, via KRO Records – listen/share HERE. The music video for the new track, directed by photographer and film director Floria Sigismondi, is also out today, available to watch HERE. The track is the latest release from Rothman’s upcoming album, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust, out September 25th via KRO Records – presave/preorder HERE.
“Time doesn’t heal much. It just gives a song another verse” says Rothman.“‘Karmakaze’ became the companion to a song of mine ‘Thrash the West,’ (feat Amanda Shires) and my dear friend Amanda came back to sing on it. I didn’t know I was writing the second half of ‘Thrash the West. Sometimes people have a way of showing up exactly where the story left off.”
“‘Karmakaze’ carried me through one of the darkest periods of my life severe depression, relentless anxiety, and confronting some of my childhood trauma” they continue.“Sometimes art has a way of reaching places that even a therapist can’t. At least it did for me. One day, I’d love to create healing workshops built around songwriting, even for people who’ve never written a song before. I believe there’s something transformative about giving pain a melody and a place to exist outside of yourself. When you sing the things you’ve been carrying, they move through your body and your mind and are destroyed.”
The music video was directed by Rothman’s wife and creative partner, Floria Sigismondi, who has directed all of Rothman’s videos, with credits including David Bowie, Rihanna and Brandi Carlile.
The new track follows previously shared singles, “A Word’s A Weapon” and “The Meaning”, the first two releases off Rothman’s forthcoming album, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust. Sigismondi also directed the music video for “The Meaning,” which landed in June – watch HERE.
Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust is Rothman’s fifth studio album and their most revealing work to date. Marking a full embrace of the Americana tradition, the album was written and recorded in Biarritz, France, and Nashville, Tennessee. Produced and mixed entirely by Rothman, the album features contributions from Amanda Shires, Katie Pruitt, Jillian Jacqueline and others. explores addiction, recovery, grief, identity, anxiety, lost love and the relentless act of surviving long enough to reinvent yourself. Grounded in the enduring tradition of Americana, it refuses to be confined to a single genre. Looking forward rather than backward, it pushes the form ahead through uncompromising songwriting, lyrical honesty, raw production and lived experience.
The new LP completes a trilogy that began with Good Morning, America (2021) and continued with The Plow That Broke the Plains (2024) – three albums conceived as a single, continuous body of work. The series was born out of the pandemic period, when a collaboration with Lucinda Williams pulled Rothman back to their roots in Nashville. The project represents Rothman’s most cohesive creative statement to date.
LAWRENCE ROTHMAN – HERE LIES LOVE / SAWDUST TO STARDUST
1. The Meaning
2. A Word’s A Weapon
3. Karmakaze (feat. Amanda Shires)
4. Stable
5. Deep Cut
6. Demons
7. Here Lies Love
8. Worn Out Woman
9. A Fire Test (feat. Sarah Klang)
10. Nothing Like Shakespeare
11. Slow Rush
12. Lost In Her Rock n’ Roll
13. Sawdust To Stardust
ABOUT LAWRENCE ROTHMAN:
Rothman is a singer-songwriter, producer and visual artist whose work has lived at the intersection of folk, rock, Americana and experimental pop for over two decades. Their acclaimed debut album, The Book of Law established Rothman as one of alternative music’s most singular voices. As a producer and collaborator, Rothman has worked with artists including Angel Olsen, Lucinda Williams, MUNA, Blondshell, Amanda Shires, Kim Gordon and Margo Price, helping shape records that transform personal vulnerability into powerful art, and drawing inspiration from those same artists in their own growth as a confessional songwriter.
