Photo credit Alexandra Waespi
On 20th March 2020, Låpsley will release her highly-anticipated second album. Titled Through Water, it’s the follow up to her 2016 album Long Way Home, one of that year’s most acclaimed debuts. Released while she was still a teenager, Long Way Home featured Låpsley’s breakthrough moments ‘Station’ and ‘Falling Short’ and spawned one of the biggest club tracks in recent years (DJ Koze’s edit of ‘Operator’) as well as inspiring a new generation of electronically minded songwriters including Billie Eilish, who name-checked it as a key influence on her sound.
To celebrate news of the new album, Låpsley today reveals her new single ‘Womxn’ and its equally stunning accompanying video. Directed by Jane Stockdale – a photographer and filmmaker famed for her work in the sports world – the video was shot in the wilds of the Yorkshire Moors and features renowned female cyclists Anneleen Bosma, Jenna Meth and Yewande Adesia battling every element the British winter has to throw at them. It is at once tough, raw, authentic and inspiring.
Låpsley – Womxn (Official Video)
Through Water is without doubt Låpsley’s most accomplished work to date, written and recorded during her transition into young womanhood. With Låpsley as the major producer and songwriter, the ten songs (whittled down from over one hundred) reflect her newfound confidence, clarity and self-awareness as an artist, documenting a wealth of personal experiences and coming-of-age stories set against a thematic backdrop of water, climate, weather and the elements.
It’s striking accompaniment to the first song Låpsley recorded for the album. Over glowing synths, she sings to a future version of herself, with what she calls “strange foresight”, as she builds herself up and promises that one day she’ll feel capable. As Låpsley herself explains about the self-empowering anthem, “I was 20 and in a pretty bad place when I wrote ‘Womxn’. It’s written hypothetically from a place in the future that was much more positive. It’s about having trust in the passage of time; about not knowing what to do right now but knowing that at some point you will know. And here we are in the future and I’m this stronger, more confident womxn, and I sing it and it’s my present.”
Through Water tracklist.
1. Through Water
2. My Love Was Like the Rain
3. First
4. Ligne 3
5. Our Love is a Garden
6. Leeds Liverpool Canal
7. Sadness is a Shade of Blue
8. Womxn
9. Bonfire
10. Speaking of the End
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