Coin Laundry
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"Coin Laundry" is a song performed and written by Australian singer–songwriter Lisa Mitchell
from her first studio album, Wonder
(2009). It was released as the lead single from the album on 24 April 2009 by Scorpio Music. The song was produced by Dann Hume
and is about finding love at the coin laundry
. "Coin Laundry" charted inside the top thirty in Australia and was nominated for an ARIA Award in late 2009.
, Australia
. While at the coin laundry, Mitchell was doodling on a notebook and when she arrived home, she wrote the song from a verse she had written at the laundry. She explains:
When Mitchell and the songs producer Hume recorded "Coin Laundry" they began messing around with beats in Hume's studio one day and Mitchell started singing what she had written for "Coin Laundry". They were both pleasantly surprised and quite shocked at the sound they created so they built the song over it.
was directed by Ness Casswill and stars Johnny Flynn
who plays Mitchell's love interest. Mitchell had a fun time making the video and had to close the London
laundromat off to the public for the filming.
Lisa Mitchell
Lisa Helen Mitchell is an Australian singer-songwriter who grew up in Albury, New South Wales. Her debut EP, Said One To The Other topped iTunes in Australia and this success brought her to the attention of boutique London-based publisher, Little Victories , a subsidiary of Sony/ATV, with whom she...
from her first studio album, Wonder
Wonder (Lisa Mitchell album)
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(2009). It was released as the lead single from the album on 24 April 2009 by Scorpio Music. The song was produced by Dann Hume
Dann Hume
Dann Hume is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Hume, is the youngest of three brothers who make up the alternative rock band, Evermore since 1999...
and is about finding love at the coin laundry
Self-service laundry
A self-service laundry is a facility where clothes are washed and dried. They are known in the United Kingdom as launderettes or laundrettes, and in the United States, Canada, and Australia as laundromats or washaterias...
. "Coin Laundry" charted inside the top thirty in Australia and was nominated for an ARIA Award in late 2009.
Writing and concept
Mitchell said that the concept of the song was developed when she was waiting for the spin cycle to finish in a coin laundry in South MelbourneSouth Melbourne
South Melbourne may refer to*South Melbourne, Victoria, suburb of Melbourne*South Melbourne FC, a football club based in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. While at the coin laundry, Mitchell was doodling on a notebook and when she arrived home, she wrote the song from a verse she had written at the laundry. She explains:
I was thinking about love, of course, and if I'd ever find that special one. Maybe I'd find love right there in the coin laundry. I had a little stage-play going on in my head where this striking young man came in to do his washing. I would be putting coins into the machine and pretend to realise that I was a dollar short. I'd ask him if he had a dollar he could spare me as a way of getting the conversation rolling. Little did he know, there were a lot of other questions that I wanted to ask him.
When Mitchell and the songs producer Hume recorded "Coin Laundry" they began messing around with beats in Hume's studio one day and Mitchell started singing what she had written for "Coin Laundry". They were both pleasantly surprised and quite shocked at the sound they created so they built the song over it.
Music video and chart performance
The song's music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
was directed by Ness Casswill and stars Johnny Flynn
Johnny Flynn
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit are an English folk rock band signed to Transgressive Records. They are fronted by Johnny Flynn , an actor, poet and songwriter who cites W.B. Yeats and Shakespeare among his influences...
who plays Mitchell's love interest. Mitchell had a fun time making the video and had to close the London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
laundromat off to the public for the filming.
In Australia, the song debut at number seventy-one on the ARIA Singles Chart on the issue dated on 3 August 2009. Next week it raised to number forty-three, and within the next nine weeks it reached its peak position at number twenty-eight on 12 October 2009. It stayed in the top fifty for thirteen weeks, re-entering once, and stayed in the top one hundred for twenty-three weeks leaving the chart on 11 January 2010. "Coin Laundry" was nominated an ARIA Award for "Breakthrough Artist - Single" in 2009, but lost the award to "My Delirium My Delirium "My Delirium" is a New Wave song performed by New Zealander musician Ladyhawke. The third track on Ladyhawke's eponymous debut album, the song was released as a single on 8 December 2008... " by Ladyhawke. |
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Track listing
- UK iTunes single
- "Coin Laundry" (radio edit) – 2:59
- "Time Means Nothing at All" – 3:46
- "Coin Laundry" (StarsmithStarsmithStarsmith is a songwriter, producer, remixer and DJ. He studied a classical music degree at the University of Surrey majoring in performance on saxophone...
remix) – 4:49
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
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| Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
24 April 2009 | Scorpio Music | Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
AU-WA0-09-00130 |
| United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
23 October 2009 | RCA Records RCA Records RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label... |