🚪 THROWBACK | Lara Taubman – The Gospel of Getting Free and the Sound of Soulful Liberation
- Tamara Jenna
- May 7
- 2 min read
Freedom, finally earned.
Released on 21 June 2024, The Gospel of Getting Free marks the emotional and artistic culmination of Lara Taubman’s journey from trauma to truth. Across ten intricately crafted tracks, the NYC-based indie folk singer delivers an album that feels less like a release and more like a rebirth.
"This album has been like a ship on which I can finally sail home."
It’s a telling quote from Lara—an artist whose discography has always traced the arc from emotional pain toward spiritual clarity. Where her previous albums Revelation, Blind Spot, and Ol’ Kentucky Road reflected raw ache and soul-deep yearning, The Gospel of Getting Free offers resolution, grace, and a mature sense of lightness.
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From Appalachia to the Upper West Side—soundtracked by resilience.
Taubman’s distinct musical palette, rooted in her bluegrass-fed Virginia childhood and sharpened through her life in New York’s art scene, blends folk-pop, Americana, soft rock, and indie gospel. You can hear it clearest in the layered harmonies of “Sing Your Song,” the stripped-down revelation of “Home At Last,” and the tongue-in-cheek ache in “Sugar.”
But don’t mistake healing for softness.
On “The Odyssey,” Lara tackles heartbreak with clarity, while “Assyrian King” and “Love Is The Rule” showcase a songwriter at peace with paradox. Tracks like “The Siren” and “So Not Me” are confessional but strong, and it’s the title track—“The Gospel of Getting Free”—that brings it all home with a full-hearted sermon on liberation.
This is Lara Taubman at her most human. Her most whole.
Genre: Alt-Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter, Folk Pop, Soft Rock
Mood: Hopeful, Reflective, Soulful, Transformative
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