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One to watch: Erin LeCount


Self-produced in her garden shed, the young Essex singer-songwriter’s gothic pop is bedding in nicely

Search for Erin LeCount online and you’re likely to find videos of her spinning around her room in a long white dress, a cross hanging on the wall and a gritty, melancholic synth melody in the background. LeCount’s 2023 debut EP, Soft Skin, Restless Bones, offered soulful vocals and the beginnings of a now well-established aesthetic: morbid religious imagery mixed with graceful ballet movements and discarded flowers. Her newest single, Silver Spoon, paints a story of love, privilege and shame through ethereal vocals and dark, angelic imagery (“I bet you grew up grazing your knees, but the fall wasn’t fatal like it was for me”).

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