Lucy Branch
Lucy Branch is a singer and songwriter from Santa Barbara, California. A perceptive vocalist with an aptitude for channeling emotion through soaring melodies and delicate phrasing, her songs are steeped in colorful rock and neo-soul stylings that accentuate their empathic nature.
The daughter of two musicians, Branch spent her childhood immersed in the sounds of her parents’ nightly performances, learning harmonies and often singing alongside them when they would record in their home studio. Her influences cover a broad musical range, stretching from guitar-centric folk and rock and roll to dance-floor-ready pop and R&B standards, all of which played a significant role in the shaping of her eventual identity as an artist. By the age of seven, Branch had latched onto the power of lyrics as a device of human connection, writing her first songs as a means of expressing emotional dilemmas that were well beyond her age.
Throughout her teenage years, Branch continued developing her craft as a singer and lyricist, using songs to better understand herself and explore her personal relationships. In 2016, she tracked an original composition at Playback Recording Studio, her first endeavor with a professional recording setup. After studying psychology in college, she returned home, unable to ignore the insistent pull to pursue her art on a more serious scale. In early 2021, inspired by the freedom of fully dedicating herself to music for the first time, her creative spark blossomed rapidly and she soon began tracking material for her first full-length project.
Branch’s debut single, “Faces,” finds a budding songwriter in a state of pure liberation, free to grow in her ambitions and indulge in her deepest sensibilities. Produced by and co-written with Maxton Hunter, the track is an uplifting introduction to Branch’s deep well of lucid and redemptive songs, a sonic tour-de-force that spotlights her emotive writing style and refined sense of melody within the framework of lush and jazzy indie-rock.