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. Growing up in Chelmsford, Essex, the 22-year-old singer-songwriter started producing her own songs during lockdown, releasing music from her garden shed studio.
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. Later that year she released a mashup cover of Phoebe Bridgers’s I Know the End and Frank Ocean’s White Ferrari. The results are otherworldly: think Ethel Cain or Florence + the Machine and Fiona Apple for the digital age.
