Juliet Lloyd – The Fair’s Moving On

Across her 20+ year career, Juliet has been admittedly stylistically non-monogamous. Her first full-length album, ‘All Dressed Up’, was released in 2005 and was heavily jazz-influenced- a label that she rejected at the time. “I am a piano player and a woman, so I was immediately compared to Norah Jones—and I bristled at that,” Juliet says. “Listening back now, I can totally see that it was true, and it of course wasn’t a bad thing.” Her follow-up release ‘Leave the Light On,’ came out two years later and featured a slick piano-pop production that led to five of its songs being placed on reality TV shows on MTV and VH1. Coming back after her 10-year break from writing and recording, Juliet released ‘High Road’, a collection of five Americana/soul-tinged songs produced by Jim Ebert (Meredith Brooks, Shai) that earned her widespread recognition and songwriting awards both in her home region of DC as well as nationally.

Now with her first ever UK tour scheduled for July 2025, Juliet is launching a new single ‘Reno Cure’, which follows recent 2025 single ‘Wild Again’ and which like ‘Carnival’, were both written with and produced by Todd Wright (Lucy Woodward, Butch Walker, Toby Lightman). ‘Reno Cure’ is an epic, emotionally packed, Americana-tinged track that sees Juliet once again dealing with the ending of her relationship.

“I thought I was done writing about divorce,” says Juliet. “My last album, Carnival, was full of songs inspired by the experience of going through it, the aftermath, and moving on. Turns out I wasn’t quite done with the topic. Last year, I read a book about the famous “divorce ranches” in Reno, Nevada in the 1950s. At the time, Nevada had the loosest divorce laws in the country. All you had to do was reside in the state for six weeks, and you could get a no-fault divorce.

So, a lot of wealthy socialite women would stay at these so-called divorce ranches where they could quietly get divorced and avoid the shame and some of the public scrutiny. It got me thinking a lot again about shame and judgement. For a long time, I didn’t even say the word out loud when referring to my own experience. I did a bunch of research about these ranches and what I found was so evocative and weirdly romantic, in a tacky old-west America kind of way. I actually wrote an entirely different version of this song a year ago and it was full of really detailed references, but it didn’t feel quite right. I stripped it back to its most abstract imagery and I think the story that comes through is even more evocative now, and I love that it exists in both the past and the present”, she further reveals.