Music can soothe the soul, but Kelly Lee Owens’s techno pop appears to have an especially balm-like quality. Her eponymous debut album came out in March, and while she didn’t have any specific intentions for it – “I had the Yoko Ono mindset, which is just to put good work out into the world and let it do its thing” – she didn’t anticipate the response it received. Perhaps it was the Tibetan singing bowls sampled on the song CBM. Or the meditative, 10-minute closing track inspired by gong baths. Or Owens’s soothing coo, which ripples trippily throughout the album. Fans would message her on Instagram telling her: “Your music has healed me.”
That revelation could sound pretentious, but Welsh-born Owens, 29, operates on a sweetly spiritual plane.Throughout our interview, there is talk of natal charts and the age of Aquarius, but also of how lazy festival promoters need to step outside their “boys’ club” and book more women. She’s pleased about the response to her record because for a time she felt guilty about leaving her job as an auxiliary nurse in a cancer ward in Manchester to pursue music. It was, however, her patients who encouraged her to quit. “They were kind of like my career advisers,” she says. “They had this unique perspective, of having their lives threatened by something out of their control, so I respected all of their words of advice.”
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