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Låpsley
If the speed of Lapsley’s ascent seems remarkable — at 19 years old, the past year has seen her move from sixth form college student to recording Long Way Home, her debut album for XL — it is testament to her talent, her musical and emotional maturity, as well as to the fact that she is that exceedingly rare thing: a young artist who knows her own mind about her music, her production, herself.
In her early teens she discovered electronic music, began going to raves near her home in Merseyside, joined a band. Though she had already written songs on guitar, now she began to experiment with their production.
Long Way Home documents a turbulent time in Låpsley’s life — a period in which she reveled in her new-found music career as it took her from Liverpool to London to Los Angeles and back again. Often on Long Way Home Låpsley recasts her romantic troubles in a different light — in the track ‘Silverlake’ likening the inevitability of the relationship’s demise to California’s dwindling water supply, or on fabulous disco number ‘Operator (He Doesn’t Call Me)’ imagining the trials of a long distance lover in the telephone switchboard age, accompanied by YouTubed samples and a live bass part from veteran bassist Otto Williams.