NEW YORK — Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of the Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES, liberates herself from preconceptions on a punchy debut solo album, “Vicious Creature.” Mayberry’s striking voice has been central to CHVRCHES’ electro-pop since the trio started making music together in 2011. “I killed myself to be one of the boys,” she sings on “Sorry, etc.” bluntly listing the concessions …
NEW YORK — The birth of Lauren Mayberry as a solo artist should be marked by something like a wolf cry. The 12 tracks of “Vicious Creature,” out Dec. 6 via Island, veer from the coffee house folk of “Anywhere But Dancing” to the punky “Punch Drunk,” the dance-pop of “Change Shapes” and stuttering glam of “Sorry, Etc.” “Vicious Creature” …