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"Whether navigating the hazy minimalism of drawn-out guitar feedback, pushing light speed with riff work, or coughing up a gut-wrenching and conflicted wail, Newman's composition puts the class back in swinging moods and the glamour back in swinging fists." - BETTAWRECKONIZE "A supreme rock performer." - SXSW.com "Newman let loose a short and intense display of jagged heavy-metal acrobatics, miraculously resuscitating the set as her able rhythm section pushed her on." - WILLAMETTE WEEK "Jill-of-all-trades" doesn't even begin to describe Lauren Kathryn Newman, but it's going to have to do until a more appropriate word is invented. Newman is the brains and beauty behind LKN; on her third full-length, Postulate I, she wrote and played every single second of music. When she first began writing music, Newman said she wanted to write what she wanted to hear but no one else was doing. The first incarnation of this was Pensacola-based StellaMarie, which began as a 4-track recording and became a touring band that lasted four years. Then, in 2003, Newman moved to Portland and began performing as LKN, writing and recording all of her own material and taking friends & fellow musicians on the road to bring the albums to life. LKN's recordings are infused with the passion of a woman with a purpose. Postulate I is an epic album full of intensely moving vocals, heavy layered chords and powerful hammering beats that hit right in the gut. From the opening of the first song, LKN's Postulate I puts the listener in an inescapable trance, and as the album closes with a beautiful and almost unexpected piano ballad, the listener is left wanting more.