Single: Window Shopping
Artist: Liv Austen
Release date: 20.07.18
Label/publishing: NUA Entertainment
Sounds like: Maren Morris, Kelsea Ballerini, Taylor
Swift, Danielle Bradbery
Norwegian
born, London based Liv Austen describes her music as “part Scandi pop, part UK singer/songwriter
and part Nashville country”. Her new single Window Shopping is full of great lyrics and catchy melody hooks,
which is what made people pay attention to her when she first came on the
scene.
Austen
wrote Window Shopping with Kaity
Rae, a young, extraordinary songwriting talent, often mentioned as a
favourite of Ben Earle of The Shires. Earle has followed and supported both
artists' careers from early on. He also wrote Liv's 2016 single Over, released by Decca Records.
Liv and Kaity bonded over their frustration with how superficial a lot of people are when looking for love. We are all expected to have a "type", and the standard for young people is to judge who they want to date from a photo. Is the addiction to keep browsing for the perfect match preventing us from having real life connections and feel genuine attraction? Window Shopping challenges listeners to live life authentically, to "try someone on" rather than just tick boxes and expect love to be the result!
While taking inspiration from the great modern sound that is coming out of Nashville, the track is also undeniably European. The song's use of English terms like “fit” confidently declares that there is no desire to mimic American artists.
Liv ensures that her music is a genuine UK product, not just in how she writes and who she writes with, but also in her choice of musicians and producers. The song was recorded with London based producer Jon Wright. Liv also co-produces all of her own tracks.
Liv says: "It is always a goal of mine to write something that's fun and catchy on the surface, but holds a much deeper meaning for anyone who listens closely to the lyrics.” Window Shopping is a perfect example.
Cover Art Fashion
Liv Austen wearing JADED Badges High Neck Mesh Bikini Top (80% polyamide / 20% elastane £25.00 (Product; regular price £35.00) adding a wipe clean JADED Pink Patent Mini Skirt £20.00 (Product; regular price £40.00) with a front zip with ring puller and jaded taping. With an off the shoulder pose she co-ordinates with a JADED Rose Gold Rain Mac £35.00 (Product; regular price £50.00).
Liv Austen “Window Shopping” (Single Review)
Liv Austen wearing JADED Badges High Neck Mesh Bikini Top (80% polyamide / 20% elastane £25.00 (Product; regular price £35.00) adding a wipe clean JADED Pink Patent Mini Skirt £20.00 (Product; regular price £40.00) with a front zip with ring puller and jaded taping. With an off the shoulder pose she co-ordinates with a JADED Rose Gold Rain Mac £35.00 (Product; regular price £50.00).
Liv Austen “Window Shopping” (Single Review)
Release
Date: 20 July 2018
Label: NUA
Entertainment
Copyright:
℗© 2018 NUA Entertainment
Total
Length: 2:58
Genres: Pop
Sporting a new blonde hair-do and fresh look it was evident from both her look and sound from her C2C Festival set in March that Liv has moved towards a more pop-infused direction, dubbed Scandi pop.
Co-produced by Liv, this pleasing brand new
single Window Shopping, tagged Pop, is certainly proof of that and the
groove is taut on this fun-soaked-tongue-in-check-number on which there is a
sense that Liv feels comfortable in this musical home.
The opening riffs (Jon Wright: guitar) with the
handclaps have something of a speeded-up vibe of Blake Shelton's ‘Boy Round
Here’.
Liv lays
down some new humorous ground rules in the first verse whilst looking for a perfect
match but certainly not perfection in terms of the looks department but carrying
a caveat that the fella must have something going on upstairs!
I'm not looking for a pretty face
Hot, but the head's just empty space
Perfect hair, perfect teeth,
Spends more time getting ready than me
Nothing more to say past the first date
conversations
Might look good behind that glass
But it doesn't work like that
Yes, the dating APPS don’t appear to have come
up roses so far and is looking for something meaningful that’s a good fit
rather than a hot looking dude with superficial feelings. With its catchy auto-tune
chorus (co-writer Kaity Rae providing background vox) slap-bass lines (Mike
Prince) and backbeat (Stuart Pringle: drums) it opens the possibility for an
energetic one-of-a-kind Average Joe!
I gotta try you on, wear you out all night long
Don't care if you're fit, just if we fit, oh
To me you've got it going on if you give me a
feeling so strong
That I've got no hope in stopping
I'm not gonna find that, window shopping (I'm not,
I'm not, I'm not gonna find that)
Window shopping (I'm not, I'm not, I'm not gonna
find that)
Good conversation
and a little rough-around-the edges charm is the order of the day here rather
than those top high street brand names and a Love Island appearance.
An
unquestionable tension-filled relationship will push the right buttons, make
the connection and have the lady hooked!
Liv adds
a cheeky spoken line “He’s not much to look at but I love him”
Fancy a little fun-filled snap, crackle and pop, then seek out with a little window shopping.
Adrian Clark
Fancy a little fun-filled snap, crackle and pop, then seek out with a little window shopping.
Adrian Clark
Others take on Window
Shopping
It was co-written with Kaity Rae so you know it’s an absolute
banger. It’s surely destined to be Austen’s third Chris Country radio A-list
single in a row, and one of many highlights on her forthcoming debut album. - Redrospective.com
If you are a fan of the likes of female powerhouses Kelsea
Ballerini, Maren Morris, Danielle Bradbery and Taylor Swift then you are going
to absolutely love this latest release from Austen which promises to be one of
the biggest songs of the Summer. - Laura Klonowski Celebmix.com
The upbeat, slightly dance vibe number is a perfect feel-good
summer anthem that makes you want to get up and dance.
If you mix the best sounds of Taylor Swift and Little Mix then you
get Window Shopping. Blast this from the car stereo with the windows down or
have it blaring from the garden whilst hanging out with friends then neighbours
and passer by’s are bound to take notice of the tune - Hannah Jessica Building Our Own Nashville
Essentially Pop.com: Six Quick Questions With Liv
Austen Ahead Of Release Of New Single ‘Window Shopping’
https://essentiallypop.com/epop/2018/07/six-quick-questions-with-liv-austen-ahead-of-release-of-new-single-window-shopping/
EP: You describe your style as “part Scandi
pop, part UK singer/songwriter, and part Nashville country”. Has your sound
been a conscious decision or do you feel you have to sing this way, it’s part
of you, it’s the way you must express yourself?
LA: It’s really just how
it turned out – from the music that I’ve been influenced by in my life. I have
never made a conscious decision to be any one thing, I have just always wanted
to make the music that comes out naturally, and that’s the best way I can
describe it! Read more at Essentially Pop.com
Your Life In A Song.com INTERVIEW (by Dan Wharton): Liv Austen On Her New Single ‘Window
Shopping’, Signing A Record Deal, Changing Musical Direction & More!
“Liv Austen is one of the hottest properties
on the British country music scene”
– Country Music Magazine’s 2018 Hot List
Country
Music Magazine Issue 08 Page 42 Feature
ABOUT Liv Austen:
Originally from Olso in Norway, Liv moved to the
UK to develop her acting career, when the songs she was writing in her spare
time found their way into the hands of music industry folk who clearly saw
their potential.
A few years later she performed at C2C 2015 playing The
Brooklyn Bowl just after Ward Thomas, plus had Ben
Earle from The Shires write material for her and
became an instant force to be reckoned with on the UK’s Country Music scene.
Liv wrote tracks for an upcoming album with various people
including Jessica Sharman who wrote five tracks Cartwheels by Ward
Thomas (the first Country album to make No 1 in the UK).
As well as this she’s filming for a well-known Channel 4 series
as well as gigging with her band around the UK.
Looks like 2018 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Liv
Austen and her heartfelt blend of Country-Pop.
After her debut single release for NUA Records, The
Next Time (Sept 15 2017 Amazon
UK – UK iTunes), which enjoyed
a 11-week run on the Chris Country A-List (the only UK artist
featured), Liv stormed
into 2018 with the release of her updated next single, Don’t Regret
A Single One (Jan 26, 2018 Amazon UK - UK iTunes) and was also featured in Country Music magazine’s 2018
Hot List alongside The Wandering Hearts, Tyler
Childers, Catherine McGrath, Jade Jackson and
others.
Her rich lead vocal was described as “akin to the same dynamic power as Carrie Underwood and the result is a performance both infectious and inspiring”.
She
performed at all three days of the 2018 Country
To Country Festival at The O2 in London playing Big Entrance Stage (Fri 9
& Sat 10 March 2018) and C2C Close Up (Sun 11 March 2018; Building Six; with
Meet & Greet).
Be sure to check her website for upcoming gigs and – you won’t
regret a single one!
Saturday
21 July 2018 - Create Festival (1:30 PM Victoria Park, Ashford)
Friday 27 July 2018 - Buck’ N Bull Saloon and Nashville Meets London come together to host a ‘Southern Fridays’ boat cruise down the River Thames. The programme includes acoustic performances by Liv Austen, Frankie Davies, and Raintown (Stevie Lawrence guitar; Paul & Claire Bain Vocals), and a DJ set by Baylen Leonard featuring fan-favorites spanning Country and Americana. More information surrounding the pre-festival cruise is available by visiting www.bucknbullsaloon.com | Tickets (£37.80; VIP 8 people Table £530.00).
Saturday
11 August 2018 - The Pheasantry, Chelsea,
London (MAP; 152 King's Rd, Chelsea,
London SW3 4UT)
7:00 PM Event
Saturday
8 September 2018 - Millport Country Music Festival BLOG £30
Tickets Line Up: Jesse
Dayton | Robert Vincent | Raintown | Liv
Austen | Jerry Harmon | The Rising | Kevin McGuire | Steve Young UK | Two
Ways Home | East Lonesome Drifters | Johnny Lee Memphis as Elvis | Fredrik
Lundman as Johnny Cash | Katee Kross | Veloninos | Kid Millport | James N Wood
| Stateline | Rodeo Stomp
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