Kelly Lee Owens has just announced her newest album, LP.8. Unlike what the title suggests, this is her third record (her most recent project Inner Song was released back in 2020). However, according to her own words, “8 meant completion—an album that will ripple infinitely with me personally.” The record was conceived after Owens had to cancel her world tour due to the pandemic. She then fled to the cold land of Norway to work with avant-noise artist Lasse Marhaug. The result of their collaboration is described as a combination of “industrial sounds with ethereal Celtic mysticism, creating music that ebbs and flows between tension and release.”

Alongside the announcement, she’s also unveiled two antagonist new tracks, functioning like the yin and yang: The throbbing industrial “Sonic 8”-echoing the urgency of “Melt!“- opposes the ambient cut “Olga,” which embodies a form of beauty and serenity. Listen and pre-order the album via Bandcamp below.

If Lost Girls, the collaboration between multi-talented avant-garde artist Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden, exists for more than a decade, they haven’t released their debut album yet. But things are about to change. Three years after their Feeling EP, the Norwegian pair are officially introducing their first full-length project with the opening and title track “Menneskekollektivet,” which means “human collective” in Norwegian. To conceive this record, they have also worked in the studio together for the first time ever.

About their sessions of improvisation in the studio, Hval stated:

“There are lots of late night ideas at work, begun as half-asleep, slack vocal takes on top of something really strange Håvard has sent me. We both record before we know what we’re actually doing.”

“The song started out with some synth chords Håvard played,” Hval added about the opening track. “I felt they sounded like the beginning of the world, or a world, so I wanted to improvise words to them that somehow expressed a beginning of a world. They don’t make sense like a written lyric should, but they are trying to make sense of something, a moment, a slow transition. On this track, the voice, and the music too, slowly makes its way from alone to together.”

Listen and pre-order Menneskekollektivet via Bandcamp below.

In a normal, Coronavirus-free world, we would already be able to listen to Kelly Lee Owens‘s sophomore album Inner Song. Initially planned for May 1, the project has been postponed to August but has already given us two amazing singles: “Melt!” and “Night“.

The Welsh producer and vocalist has now unveiled a brand new track and video, “On,” which is definitely our favourite track of the project so far even if you can hear that this is the product of a difficult personal experience for the artist. As she explains it in the press release, Inner Song was written and inspired by “the hardest three years of my life.”

“This is perhaps the most intimate and personal song I’ve written so far,” she explained. “The two halves of the track reflect upon sad acceptances of the truth and then the joyous aftermath of liberation that can come from that​,” she wrote in a press release. “​This can definitely be heard in the production and arrangement of the track — the first half sonically connecting to the inner revelations and the second half, the liberation in action, the forward motion.”

“On” also comes with a Kasper Häggström-directed video. Watch below and stream the single via our Best Tracks of 2020 playlist.

Like a lot of other artists, electronic producer Kelly Lee Owens has recently postponed the release of her new album. In order to make us wait, she has unveiled a hopeful and uplifting new track, “Night,” which “wasn’t really supposed to be a single” according to one of her tweets. “This track speaks as to how feelings and insights are more accessible to us at nighttime,” she detailed. “how the veils are thinner somehow and therefore how we are more able to connect to our hearts true desires. I wanted to release this track as a gift to you during this crazy time, to give a part of my heart to you all.” Watch the visuals, courtesy of Félix Gourd, and pre-order the album via Bandcamp below.

Welsh musician and producer Kelly Lee Owens will return with her sophomore album in May, three years after the release of her self-titled debut record. Inner Song comes after “the hardest three years of my life,” she stated. “My creative life and everything I’d worked for up to that point was deeply impacted. I wasn’t sure if I could make anything anymore, and it took quite a lot of courage to get to a point where I could create again.”

The title of the album, Inner Smile “really reflects what it felt like to make this record,” she added. “I did a lot of inner work in the past few years, and this is a true reflection of that.”

The whispery yet frontal lead single, “MELT!”, deals with climate change (she sampled the sounds of ice melting). “I wanted to create something that sounded hard but with organic samples,” she explained. “I felt those were great representations of what’s happening in the world, that every moment you’re breathing and sleeping, this is taking place.” The track comes with an animation directed by Laneya Billingsley, aka Billie0cean. Watch and pre-order the album via Bandcamp below.

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London’s producer and singer Kelly Lee Owens has just shared a new version of her eponymous album, with 3 additional tracks, including the chill new single “Voices”.

The deluxe version of Kelly Lee Owens‘ eponymous debut is now out via Smalltown Supersound.

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