Lauren Bousfield Explained

Lauren Bousfield
Alias:	Nero's Day at Disneyland
Origin:	Oakland, California, U.S.
Genre:	Experimental, glitch, breakcore, synth punk
Label:	Audio Savant Deathbomb Arc Orange Milk Records
Associated Acts:	Strip Mall Seizures Beautiful Mutants Self Spiller
Website:	https://www.laurenbousfield.com

Lauren Bousfield is a composer, sound designer, and electronic musician based in Los Angeles. She initially became known for her project Nero's Day at Disneyland, which merged breakcore, synth-punk, and circus-like melodies on densely constructed releases like 2009's From Rotting Fantasylands. Since 2012, Bousfield has been making music under her own name, incorporating more vocals and increased pop sensibilities on recordings such as 2020's Palimpsest and 2023's Salesforce, additionally composing for television, film, and video games.^[1]

History

Lauren Bousfield has been a part of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions.^[2]

Discography

With Beautiful Mutants

• Beautiful Mutants - Rock and Roll Mind Control (circa. 1998)
• Beautiful Mutants - Who Feeds on Whom (circa. 1999)
• Beautiful Mutants - Beautiful Mutants (circa. 2000)

As Nero's Day at Disneyland

Studio albums

• Attention Shoppers (2006)
• Trickle Down Economixxx (2008)
• From Rotting Fantasylands (2009)
• Heaven's Gate (Unofficial/Fan Project) (2017)

EPs

• Grievances and Dead Malls (2005)
• Colonists (2007)

Singles

• "Mascara Running Everywhere" (2010)
• "Bent Chorals" feat. Mincemeat or Tenspeed (2010)
• "Heaven's Gate" (2011)
• "Sable Leathery Wings" (2011)

As Lauren Bousfield

Studio albums

• Avalon Vales (2013)
• Namazu Running OST (2016)
• Palimpsest (2020)
• Salesforce (2023)

EPs

• Locked into Phantasy (2012)
• Fire Songs (2017)

Singles

• "Valed" (2013)
• "Dead Eyes" (2016)
• "Clocked" (2016)
• "Slow Slicing/Klonopin" (2016)
• "Flying High" (2016)
• "Scold's Bridle" (2016)
• "Fukup" feat. Skylla (2016)
• "Used to Be Better" feat. Girls Rituals (2017)
• "Press Fire from No World Dreamers: Sticky Zeitgeist" (2017)
• "Crawling Into a Fireplace Cackling" (2020)
• "Headstone Prices on Credit" (2023)
• "Mansions No One Wants to Buy for Any Price" (2023)
• "Hazer" (2023)

As In House Pharmacy

Studio albums

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man Revisted (2018)
• We Are Electronics and Piano Only (2020)
• Stochastic Violence (2022)

External links

• Nero's Day at Disneyland on Spotify
• Nero's Day at Disneyland on SoundCloud
• Lauren Bousfield on Bandcamp
• Nero's Day at Disneyland on Facebook
• Lauren Bousfield Medical Bill Support Page Retrieved 28 September 2016
• Lauren Bousfield's Fire Songs Honors Ghost Ship Victims and Her Own Fire Trauma Retrieved 24 June 2017

Notes and References

1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lauren-bousfield-mn0003476793
2. Web site: The Broad. www.thebroad.org. en. 2018-03-02.