Pool Of Sound - Låpsley

Holly Lapsley Fletcher was born on the 7th of August 1996 in York. She is known by the stage name Låpsley, and the singer, songwriter, musician and producer grew up in Southport where she attended Greenbank High School and then sixth form college at Formby High School. At this early age she started regularly catching a 45-minute train into Liverpool, telling her parents she was sleeping over at a friend's house. In fact, she was attending covert warehouse raves in the city's dockland area satisfying her increasing appetite for electronic beats and the drugs which went along with them. At 16 she joined a band, 'Dhrone', that squared with her new musical passions being named after the droning sounds prevalent in ambient music.

Initially, she was making subdued house-like productions in her bedroom on her laptop, and in 2013 she uploaded them to SoundCloud, solely because she "had family abroad. I wanted to show them the stuff that I made," she says. Following over half a million listens of this EP, 'Monday', she was forced to organise her first live performance to cater to all the label interest.
Having also been a member of several bands in the Merseyside area, she won the 'One to Watch' prize at Merseyside's GIT (Getintothis) Award in April 2014. 

Championed by BBC Radio 1 DJ's Huw Stephens and Zane Lowe, her next gig was playing the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2014 and later that year was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2015 poll and then was shortlisted for best new artist at the NME awards. Her track 'Painter (Valentine)' was playlisted by BBC Radio 1 in September 2014 and received daytime airplay before she signed for XL Recordings in October 2014. After finishing her A-Level exams when 18 years old, she moved to London alone to begin work on her debut album and rented a one bedroom apartment in Notting Hill, due to its proximity to the label's studio, which allowed her to spend as much time there as possible. On the 30th of November 2014, Låpsley was revealed as one of acts on the BBC Sound of ...2015 long list and she released her 'Understudy EP on the 5th of January 2015.

Her debut album, 'Long Way Home', was released on the 4th of March 2016 and in April 2016, she was picked as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month and was then featured on NBC's Today show, broadcast nationally, where she performed live her single "Love Is Blind" from the debut album. The slightly platitudinous ballad with a ghostly, bombastic production, was also playlisted by Radio 1. Her debut album is a collection of songs that resemble big, airy rooms – ones that have been sparsely and classily furnished with percussive ticks, warped vocal interruptions and beautiful, lingering melodies. Produced by herself, with some help from XL's in-house studio manager, she began training as an engineer so that she didn't need anybody's help in future productions. Being a very academic person, with plans to go to Bristol or Cambridge University and, coming from a family of doctors and lawyers and engineers, she was very studious at school. She says that after passing up the chance to go to university to study Geography in order to pursue a career, she decided that she would keep up this diligence. She says, "The day I said no to going to uni, I was like: 'Right, I'm going to apply the same work ethic I do to my studies to this job."
In 2016, the track '8896' was included in the sound track of American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold. In the same year, track 'Falling Short' was included in season one of Harlan Coben's TV series 'The Five' during the final scene of episode 4, directed by Mark Tonderai. 

After touring across Europe, America and the Far East it was expected that she would keep on going and strike while the iron was hot but instead she took a break in order to recharge, take stock of everything and reconnect with herself.  She felt that music had affected her studies and by not getting her predicted grades had pushed her into a career in music, so she battled whether she had made the right decision. It took five years for her to forgive herself for making that initial decision before feeling proud of herself and seeing this now as being her career.

 

Posting on Twitter in 2019, just before her comeback, Låpsley, said she needed the break to have time and isolation to be able 'to create something that I thought was the truest version of myself'. Returning she appeared on BBC Radio1 Future Sounds with Phil Taggart with a new single 'My Love Was Like The Rain', which was named Hottest Record in the World, her first single since her 2016 debut album. This was from a four track EP which also included, 'Eve', 'Ligne 3' and 'Drowning'. Following this came the announcement that March 20th, 2020 would be the release date for her highly-anticipated second album. With Låpsley as the major producer and songwriter, the ten songs on 'Through Water' reflect her newfound confidence, clarity and self-awareness as an artist, and document a wealth of personal experiences and coming-of-age stories set against a thematic backdrop of water, weather and the elements.

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