‘Bye Bye Jackie’, Laura-Mary Carter’s solo debut album

Best known as one half of the cult rock duo Blood Red Shoes, Laura-Mary Carter releases her solo debut album, ‘Bye Bye Jackie’ today. She has spent the past two decades touring the globe with a guitar in her hand, pushing boundaries in a scene where women with electric guitars were still a rarity.

‘Bye Bye Jackie’, her debut solo album, peels back the noise. It’s more intimate. More reflective. Written across hotel rooms, greens rooms, and quiet moments at home, the songs were born on a Spanish nylon-string guitar and shaped during a two-week session in Hackney, London, where Laura-Mary teamed up with Oscar Robertson (Sholto) and David Bardon (sunglasses for jaws) on production. Both known for their adventurous and experimental approaches to sound.

Born to Irish parents and raised in the suburbs of London, Laura-Mary Carter always felt like she came from somewhere slightly else. That feeling of dislocation, of being slightly out of orbit, has shaped both her life and her music ever since.

The record is about love: its beauty, its fragility, its failures… but also about trying to love in a world that often feels too fast, too rigid, too distracted for someone who’s always felt a little different. ‘Bye Bye Jackie’ is the sound of someone letting go. Letting go of relationships, expectations, versions of the past self that no longer fit. It is a love letter, a breakup note, and a quiet manifesto for anyone who’s lived a life slightly off the map.

Catch her live as she’s supporting Queens of the Stone Age on their European tour this fall.