AF: What is your favorite New York City venue?
LC: Mercury Lounge.
AF: Best neighborhood?
LC: I love the East Village and Chinatown in Manhattan and Park Slope in Brooklyn. But then all the museums are uptown...
AF: How did you meet and form Parlour Tricks?
LC: We met in college. I started writing music in my third or fourth year, and asked these cool kids to play with me to see if the songs were any good. It was a crapshoot.
AF: How do you enjoy life on the road?
LC: Genuinely love it.
AF: Your set up of three vocalists is rather talked about, how did the band formation come about?
LC: First it was just me, Brian, Terry and Angelo, no other women. But I'd hear these thick three-part harmonies in my head in every song I wrote, and finally realized we needed to expand the family. Deedee and Morgane gave me everything I was looking for.
AF: What do you miss most from home while traveling?
LC: Not having to load and unload gear every day is a simple pleasure.
AF: Where did your band name come from?
LC: I always loved the idea of "parlour tricks." People used to get together in someone's living room and entertain each other. The intimacy of it. Make your own fun.
AF: Your music has been described as much retro and built for the future, if you could see yourself thriving in any time but the present what would it be?
LC: Any time that will have us, I guess. I think we'd do OK amongst the dinosaurs. Really get back to basics.
AF: What's next for Parlour Tricks?
LC: We are so, so psyched to be releasing our debut full-length album with Bar/None Records this June
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For a taste of what they're like live, watch Parlour Tricks' recent Audiotree session below:
