Lauren Bousfield

Lauren Bousfield is an electronic musician, composer, and sound designer based in Los Angeles. She initially gained recognition for her project Nero's Day at Disneyland, and has since released music under her own name, and as part of the duos In-House Pharmacy and DOOR EATER. Bousfield also composes music for television, film, and video games.

Career

Early life Bousfield was raised in Southern California. Both of her parents are musicians, and she grew up playing piano, which she still considers to be her primary instrument. Bousfield's musical career began by playing in the punk bands Beautiful Mutants and Strip Mall Seizures. Her earliest solo music, released in the mid-2000s under the name Nero's Day at Disneyland, This earlier music has been described as a "prescient" forerunner to the electronic music of the 2020s, Her 2016 album Avalon Vales was described by Daniel Jones of Electronic Beats as a "grown-up" version of the punk music that she had played earlier in her career, while retaining the "deft manipulation of chamber music samples and the chaotic catchiness" seen in Nero's Day at Disneyland. She later stated in June 2021 that she was fired soon after she transitioned.

In 2017, Bousfield released the EP Fire Songs, which was made after the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire and a house fire in her own home. The EP's opening track honors Joey Casio, a friend of Bousfield and fellow musician who died in the Ghost Ship fire.

In 2018, Bousfield and her wife Naomi Mitchell released Tetsuo: The Iron Man Revisited, a rescored soundtrack to the 1989 film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, under the name In-House Pharmacy. (Bousfield and Mitchell had previously collaborated on the closing track of Fire Songs, titled "".) As of 2025, there have been two further releases by In-House Pharmacy: We Are Electronics and Piano Only in 2020, and the single Stochastic Violence in 2022.

In 2020, Bousfield released the album Palimpsest. It was positively reviewed by Paul Simpson of AllMusic as "her most accomplished work to date", "filled with corkscrew breakbeats and torrential noise eruptions, but with a cinematic scope and a pop lifeblood coursing through it all."

In 2025, Bousfield and Ada Rook announced their noise pop project DOOR EATER. Their debut album try released in June 2025. Bousfield and Rook had previously collaborated on the song Hazer from Bousfield's 2023 album Salesforce. She has also collaborated with musicians such as clipping. and Devi McCallion. While in college Bousfield studied the sociology of amusement parks.

Bousfield's queer identity also plays an important role in her art, and she has stated that she wants to make music for “young, upset, specifically trans kids”.

Discography With Beautiful Mutants Studio albums Rock and Roll Mind Control (circa 1998) Who Feeds on Whom (circa. 1999) Beautiful Mutants (circa. 2000)

With Strip Mall Seizures Studio albums Strip Mall Seizures (2003) No English (2006) Secret To Financial Freedom (2008) I'll Never Give Up On You (2011)

As Lauren VS. Fern

Carnival Infernale (circa 2012)

As Nero's Day at Disneyland Studio albums

Attention Shoppers (2005) From Rotting Fantasylands (2009)

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) øBabylon (2026)

Other Releases

The Fruit Will Rot, Vol. 3 - Disc G (2007) [Compilation Appearance] Trickle Down Economixxx (2008) [DJ Mix/Mixtape]

In Self Spiller Studio albums Worms In The Keys (2012) Worms In The Keys Remixes (2017)

Singles Fountain Of Blood (2014)

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 feat. Skylla (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) Forest Theme (2021) Swamp Theme (2021) Irl Theme (2021) Headstone Prices on Credit (2023) Mansions No One Wants to Buy for Any Price (2023) Hazer (2023) White Clouds Turning Black Factory Farm Flames In The Distance (2024)

Mixes Lauren Bousfield @ 909 Fest (2020) Lauren Bousfield - Worst Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade Accidents!! (2021) Lauren Bousfield - 7/22/21 - HausMo Fun One: July Edition (2021) Lauren Bousfield Dublab Set 6.14.23 (2023)

As In House Pharmacy EPs Tetsuo: The Iron Man Revisited (2018) We Are Electronics and Piano Only (2020) In-House Pharmacy B-sides 001 (2020)

Singles Thunder and Rain (2021) Stochastic Violence (2022)

As DOOR EATER Singles stay out (2025) dead sky (2025) lifeblood (2025)

Albums try (2025)