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All too immaculate on record, the 19-year-old Liverpudlian electro auteur showed some welcome rough edges
Sometimes artists can arrive just too fully formed. That certainly seemed to be the case when 19-year-old Liverpudlian singer-songwriter and electro auteur Holly Lapsley Fletcher, aka Låpsley, recently unveiled her buffed and scrupulously tasteful debut album, Long Way Home.
The record is an immaculate masterclass in the strain of blanched, spectral R&B that now appears to be de rigueur for all artily inclined electronic artists in the wake of the successes of James Blake and the xx. Purportedly a breakup album, it laments its maker’s loneliness and heartbreak while appearing not to have a musical or emotional hair out of place.
Continue reading...by Ian Gittins via Electronic music | The Guardian
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