Long Way Home
The next great British female vocalist? Holly Lapsley Fletcher makes a robust play for the crown with a startlingly poised debut album. Weaving ice-cool electronic production into her high-end torch songs, it’s still that rich, doleful croon that might just hand the 19-year-old a place at pop’s top table. “Hurt Me,” “Love Is Blind,” and “Silverlake” are your starting points: evocative and possessing giant, rousing choruses to thaw the iciest of dispositions.
19-year-old British musician Låpsley makes shimmering synth-pop shot through with longing. The best songs on her XL Recordings debut sound both intimate and enormous, while the less-inspired ones feel like trying to recall something boring that happened to you once.
The Merseyside based solo artist releases her debut album - a distinctive mix of electronic textures and her stark observations of a long distance relationship in decline.
At 19, Holly Lapsley Fletcher – who records under her middle name – is a wise head on young shoulders.
In refusing to let the music industry's ignorance affect her work, Låpsley proves her point: women can do this damn well on their own, when they're given the chance. Long Way Home is a resounding success and hopefully the start of a very promising career.
Discover Long Way Home by Låpsley released in 2016. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Despite making her name with spectral, minimalist bedroom productions, Liverpudlian artist Låpsley explores new territory on her debut Long Way Home.
Holly Låpsley Fletcher is a young singer-songwriter-producer from Liverpool whose wisdom and proficiency transcend her 19 years of age. Shar...
'Long Way Home' by Låpsley, album review by Jen Dan. The full-length comes out on March 4th via XL Recordings. Låpsley starts her tour,2/5 in Manchester, UK
The lady James Blake is here in the form of 19-year-old Låpsley, who is from Merseyside but has confusingly added an accent to her name – perhaps to suggest she could just as easily have crafted her minimal electronic ballads in a Scandinavian log cabin.
Long Way HomeArtist: LapsleyGenre: PopLabel: XLShapeshifting is the new rock’n’roll.