“At least a little bit of ‘fuck you’ in music is important to me,” declares Los Angeles based Lauren Bousfield, speaking to Claire Biddles in The Wire 473. “There’s definitely different ways that people resist capitalism, but I just like it when it’s evident.”

The dizzying speed, ruthless nature and dark consequences of consumerist culture are themes that Bousfield has been interrogating via her high-tempo maximalist productions continuously throughout her decades-long career. Following sociological studies into amusement parks, a previous project carried the pseudonym Nero's Day At Disneyland, under which Bousfield released the albums Attention Shoppers and From Rotting Fantasylands in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Her most recent release Salesforce includes track titles such as “Deserted Olympic Villages”, “Headstone Prices On Credit” and “Permanently Closed”. Despite Bousfield's critical perspective, she maintains she aims to have a tension between disaster and hope, telling Biddles that her music is for “making people who are looked down on feel powerful.”

Here, the electronic artist compiles tracks from a spread of albums released over the past 11 years.

Lauren Bousfield featuring Ada Rock
“Hazer”
From Salesforce (2023)
(Orange Milk)

Lauren Bousfield
“Adraft”
From Palimpsest (2020)
(Deathbomb Arc)

Lauren Bousfield
“Riverrun Humbling Allegory”
From Avalon Vales (2013)
(Vale)

Lauren Bousfield
“The Ropes Our Nights Were Laid Across, Pulled Taut”
From Locked Into Fantasy (2012)
(Vale)

Lauren Bousfield
“Piles of Black Dresses and Theory and Bodies and Light and Distance Between People and Whatever Nevermind”
From Fire Songs (2017)
(No label)

Lauren Bousfield
“Dead Eyes”
From Dead Eyes (2016)
(No label)

Lauren Bousfield
“Crawling Into A Fireplace Cackling”
From Palimpsest (2020)
(Deathbomb Arc)

Lauren Bousfield
“No More Worlds Like This, No More Days Like That”
From Avalon Vales (2013)
(Vale)

Lauren Bousfield
“Cracknight”
From Avalon Vales (2013)
(Vale)

Lauren Bousfield
“Palimpset”
From Palimpset (2020)
(Deathbomb Arc)

Lauren Bousfield
“Locked Into Phantasy”
From Locked Into Phantasy (2012)
(No label)

Lauren Bousfield
“Blown Blooms”
From Locked Into Phantasy (2012)
(No label)

Read Claire Biddles's interview with Lauren Bousfield in full in The Wire 473. Wire subscribers can also read the magazine online via the digital library.