Emotionally, it was incredibly fulfilling, albeit culturally odd,” says Låpsley. The singer is talking about the fallout from a love triangle that had her at its centre. It’s an experience she’s zoned in on for her latest record, and it challenged her long-held belief that you “have a finite amount of love for a single person”.
While writing this, her fourth album – and her first as an independent artist – she was grappling with more than just creative pressure. The romantic entanglement involved her now-ex, who also happens to be the album’s co-producer. Across their relationship, Holly Lapsley Fletcher, 29, met someone new, to whom she is now engaged. The album deals with her love for both men – and subsequent decision to break up with one – poetically, and with unflinching honesty.
