English Alt-pop singer-songwriter and producer Erin LeCount has released her new single, I Believe. We asked her the BIG questions . . .
Erin is a 22-year-old self-taught artist and producer with influences including Fiona Apple, Kate Bush, Lorde, Imogen Heap, Charli xcx, and Sampha.
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Speaking about I Believe, she says, "It's a cynical, existential song about apathy, passiveness in your own life, disillusionment with the state of the world, what it feels like to turning to every possible external source to tell you how to feel and exist - religion, self-help books, magazines, astrology, lovers, antidepressants.
"I wrote it about a pursuit of perfection, faith and meaning soundtracked to relentless synth pop production."
Tell us three things about yourself . . .
I’m not a natural blonde. I’ve been singing live for over thirteen years. Fell in a drain as a child, like really in it, whole body, not just a foot or something.
How would you describe your music?
I think if it was a person, it would have a pop heartbeat, but the body is a bit of a Frankenstein. Warped and slightly dark but there’s a lot of care and craft put into it, a lot of alchemy.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Kate Bush is really my north star, and the lineage of everyone she paved the way for like Imogen Heap and Björk. I love Robyn and Lorde, the synthpop outliers and Lana. I love Sampha too, he’s a special artist to me.
What was the first gig you ever went to?
I went to every random band gig/live show/open mic I possibly could at a really young age, I was obsessed with this local club and rehearsed there every single weekend, so I would desperately try to stay and see the local bands in the evening, a lot of those memories blur. My first proper "concert" that wasn’t in some local bar or club was when I was sixteen, it was in the nosebleed seats of Ariana Grande’s Sweetener Tour. Very different energy. I love both.
What was the first record you ever bought?
I mean the first ever thing I remember buying on my iPod Touch was Now That’s What I Call Music 81, which was 2012 era pop music. If that counts. When I started listening to vinyl, I just used to take my dad’s old hip hop stuff, or my mum's 80s records.
What’s your favourite song right now?
My Lights Kiss Your Every Thought by Lucy Gooch. Feels like being weightless.
Favourite lyric of all time?
"I just know that something good is gonna happen, I don’t know when, but just saying it could even make it happen" from Cloudbusting by Kate Bush. I listen to it on every good day, every bad day.
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Cloudbusting by Kate Bush (again). It’s really that special to me.
Where can people find your music/more information?
The internet. Erin LeCount on everything. A live show.
Alan Corr
