Bio
Brooke Parrott had to travel far from her native Oregon in order to come back home. After cities in the U.S. failed to hold her, she left for a different life in London, but not without an imparted melancholy from days in Seattle and an enhanced songwriting sensibility from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. In London she lived, at one point, in a disused pub rumored to be an old haunt of Charles Dickens and Karl Marx, and wrote songs on a disintegrating grand piano. Performing incessantly and finding her place in a collective of talented musicians, three musically formative years in London seeped into her music, fueling her songs with poignant storytelling and a disarming sense of loneliness in love.
When Portland’s siren call became too loud to ignore, Parrott returned to the Pacific NW and began touring and recording with Portland darlings Loch Lomond, whose trace influence can be found in the ambient guitar and bowed vibraphone layered over the trademark piano of her new material.
Parrott’s new EP, ‘Buried’, was written between contrasting worlds - part manic and suffocating winter of London, part hinterland yurt in the Oregon woods. Recorded in Los Angeles, she pulled in the talents of friends old and new to give life to the lush arrangements and compelling songs. ‘Buried’ will be released June 1 on Ten ’til Six Records.