LÅPSLEY
ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM LONG WAY HOME TO BE RELEASED ON MARCH 4 ON XL RECORDINGS
HEAR NEW SINGLE “LOVE IS BLIND” HERE
JAN. 22 PERFORMANCE CONFIRMED ON THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
NEW TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
London-based singer, songwriter and producer Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher today reveals details of her highly-anticipated debut album. The 19 year old will release Long Way Home on Friday, March 4th on XL Recordings. The twelve track album features new versions of her previous acclaimed releases “Hurt Me”, “Falling Short”, “Painter” and “Station”, as well as brand new single “Love Is Blind.” To celebrate the announcement of Long Way Home, Låpsley will make her late night TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this Friday with a performance of her widespread single “Falling Short.”
Hear “Love Is Blind” right now: https://youtu.be/wXmaDGAlLvU
Long Way Home documents a turbulent time in Låpsley’s life — a period in which she revelled in her new-found music career as it took her from Liverpool to London to Los Angeles and back again “It’s an autobiography of my emotions and events over the past year,” she says. “Everything that’s happened, I’ve channelled in some way into a song – whether that’s the theme of a long distance relationship, or something that he’s said, or the way that I’ve felt, or an argument. I only revisit the memories of that relationship when I go into the studio. I think it’s helped me, to be able to collect everything for those moments when I’m writing. I think that’s what’s driven this album.”
Låpsley’s determined views on her own production have ensured her involvement in every element of these songs — a fact that in the early days seemed to confuse many of the producers she met. “They didn’t want to listen to me,” she says, “or they think a girl’s just there to add a top line, or they come to the table with ideas already. Straight away if I come in to a studio and someone says ‘I’ve written something for you’, then I’ll just walk out. I don’t care. I’m not there for that.”
For the bulk of Long Way Home she worked with XL’s in-house producer Rodaidh McDonald. “This album wouldn’t be how it is if it wasn’t for Rodaidh,” she says. “He’s at the top of the thank yous.” There were two tracks recorded with Paul O’Duffy, a producer she admired because “The way that he thinks is different to anybody else. He’s not tainted by a commercial idea, it’s so creative and beautiful and what I aspire to be like in the future.” She worked with Mura Masa for the album’s closing track, a song that gave the record its title. “That lyric about taking the long way home just sums up the relationship,” she says. “It has two different meanings: the album’s about a long distance relationship, but also if you walk the long way home with someone you’re trying to spend as much time as you can with them.”
Long Way Home track list:
1. Heartless
2. Hurt Me
4. Cliff
5. Operator (He Doesn't Call Me)
6. Painter
7. Tell Me The Truth
8. Station
10. Silverlake
11. Leap
12. Seven Months
Meanwhile, Låpsley today announces a run of UK, European and North American tour dates. The tour will feature Låpsley’s biggest headline shows so far, taking in the likes of London’s Heaven (March 30) and New York’s Music Hall of Williamsburg (May 11). Tickets for the UK And European shows go on sale Wednesday, January 20th, and for the US show on Friday, January 22nd.
The full dates are:
March 5th Academy 2, Manchester, UK
March 6th Trinity, Bristol, UK
March 9th Institute 3, Birmingham, UK
March 10th The Haunt, Brighton, UK
March 21st Gebäude 9, Cologne, Germany
March 22nd PBHF Club, Berlin, Germany
March 24th Nochtspeicher, Hambury, Germany
March 28th Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, Holland
March 29th La Boule Noire, Paris, France
March 30th Heaven, London, UK
April 15th Coachella Festival, Indio, CA, USA
April 20th The Independent, San Francisco, CA, USA
April 21st El Rey, Los Angeles, CA, USA
April 22nd Coachella Festival, Indio, CA, USA
April 25th Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, USA
April 26th Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver, Canada
April 27th Chop Suey, Seattle, WA, USA
April 30th 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN, USA
May 1st Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL, USA
May 3rd Mod Club, Toronto, Canada
May 4th Fairmount Theatre, Montreal, Canada
May 5th The Sinclair, Cambridge MA, USA
May 8th World Café Live, Philadelphia, PA, USA
May 9th U Street Music Hall, Washington, DC, USA
May 11th Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York, NY, USA
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