Long Way Home [Audio CD] LAPSLEY

London-based singer, songwriter and producer Holly ?Låpsley? Fletcher has announced her highly anticipated debut album. The 19 year old releases Long Way Home Friday 4th March 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?. Over the course of 2015, the fast-emerging, songwriter and producer Låpsley has become one of the most hotly tipped new UK artists around the globe with Complex calling her ?one of the most promising new artists out there? and Stereogum describing her as ?Adele crossed with the xx.? Through beautifully crafted songs she has created a unique sonic identity, mixing sparse, minimal electronic production with gorgeous, emotive songwriting, garnering her over 22 million streams. 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. 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.? Låpsley came to North America last year in support of her Understudy EP on XL Recordings, and played to sold-out audiences in Toronto, NYC, and Los Angeles. She returned to New York in November to play sell outs at Rough Trade and Mercury Lounge performing new material from her impending debut album. ?Love Is Blind,? Låpsley?s latest release, further cements her position as a prodigious new talent. To date she?s garnered ?Best New Artist? mentions from Buzzfeed, NPR, KCRW, Nylon, & Elle. ?Lapsley?s tracks make no pains to disguise her preternatural sonic sophistication...All signs point to Lapsley soon embarking on a Lorde-like skyward trajectory, but I would be selfishly happy keeping her evocative grooves a well-kept indie secret.? - Buzzfeed ?'Hurt Me' is an enticing pop vision from an artist blessed with an artful gaze.? - Clash Music Artist & Album Information: 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.? Working closely with producer Rodaidh McDonald on the album, she also tapped Paul O?Duffy for 2 songs and Mura Masa for the album?s closing track, the 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.?