Two weeks after the release of her latest album ‘Through Water’, Låpsley has shared a stripped back piano version of lead single ‘Womxn’. The cover was in collaboration with Cardinal Sessions and was posted to their YouTube channel on 1st April 2020.
The video has over 1,000 views and shows a wonderful new side of the singer as she plays from home instead of in a studio as she normally would. Låpsley is shown playing her piano and singing live with no professional equipment, just a camera set up next to her.
Womxn already has over 1 million plays on Spotify, as well as on the music video which features Låpsley driving down country roads. The single was named the ‘Hottest Record In The World’ this month.
In a statement about the song, she wrote “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’ is Låpley’s second studio album and was released with her record label XL Recordings. The album received a great reception, deemed “poetic and powerful” by The Guardian, with fan favourite song ‘My Love Was Like The Rain’ breaking 2 million Spotify streams. It was released on 20th March 2020, four years after her debut album ‘Long Way Home’.
Låpsley’s career began in 2014 when she won GIT’s (Getintothis) One To Watch Award, gaining over half a million streams on SoundCloud. She went to on perform for BBC Introducing at Glastonbury, sign with XL Recordings, and release numerous EPs. Based in London, the artist is a singer, songwriter, producer and pianist and also runs her own radio show, ‘The Å List’, in which she shares her favourite music.
