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.
Last year, LeCount featured on German DJ Ben Böhmer’s Faithless, a delicate song of self-sabotage and lost love. 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”). Originally a demo on SoundCloud and YouTube, when the song was officially released it achieved more than 1m streams in a week. In 2025 it looks as if LeCount’s garden-shed pop will continue to bloom.
Silver Spoon is out now. Erin LeCount plays Rae’s, London SE1, on 27 March
