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Låpsley
Holly Lapsley Fletcher (born 7 August 1996), known professionally as Låpsley, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and producer. She came to prominence in the mid-2010s with a series of self-produced EPs and was long-listed for the BBC Sound of 2015 poll. Her debut album, Long Way Home (2016), was released by XL Recordings to positive reviews and peaked at No. 32 in the UK Albums Chart. She has since released three further studio albums – Through Water (2020), Cautionary Tales of Youth (2023) and I'm a Hurricane I'm a Woman in Love (2025) – as well as the 2024 EP A Guilty Heart Can Never Rest, moving from major-label releases to fully independent work.
Låpsley was born in York, North Yorkshire, and grew up in Southport, Merseyside. Her middle name, Lapsley, is her mother's maiden name. She attended Greenbank High School and Formby High School for sixth form.
She has said that she adapted her stage name from "Lapsley" to "Låpsley" by adding the Scandinavian letter Å, partly because of a long-standing fascination with Scandinavia, which she discussed on the Scandinavian talk show Skavlan in 2016.
As a teenager, Låpsley sang and played in several bands around Merseyside before releasing her debut solo EP, Monday, recorded largely in her bedroom and uploaded to SoundCloud in 2013–2014. The EP attracted hundreds of thousands of plays and attention from UK music blogs, winning her the "One to Watch" prize at Merseyside's GIT Award in April 2014.
In June 2014 she performed on the BBC Introducing stage at the Glastonbury Festival, championed by BBC Radio 1 DJs including Huw Stephens and Zane Lowe. Her song "Painter (Valentine)" was playlisted on BBC Radio 1 later that year.
Låpsley signed to XL Recordings in October 2014 and released the EP Understudy in January 2015. She was long-listed for the BBC Sound of 2015 poll and also topped the Blog Sound of 2015 list compiled by UK music bloggers.
Her debut album Long Way Home was released on 4 March 2016 through XL Recordings. It reached number 32 on the UK Albums Chart and charted in several other territories, with critics highlighting its sparse electronic arrangements and emotionally direct lyrics. Around this time she made her US television debut on NBC's Today, performing the single "Love Is Blind". Songs from the record later appeared on the soundtrack of the film American Honey directed by Andrea Arnold and in television drama The Five.
In 2017, Billie Eilish cited the song "Station" as a main inspiration for her breakthrough hit "Ocean Eyes".
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Låpsley
Holly Lapsley Fletcher (born 7 August 1996), known professionally as Låpsley, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and producer. She came to prominence in the mid-2010s with a series of self-produced EPs and was long-listed for the BBC Sound of 2015 poll. Her debut album, Long Way Home (2016), was released by XL Recordings to positive reviews and peaked at No. 32 in the UK Albums Chart. She has since released three further studio albums – Through Water (2020), Cautionary Tales of Youth (2023) and I'm a Hurricane I'm a Woman in Love (2025) – as well as the 2024 EP A Guilty Heart Can Never Rest, moving from major-label releases to fully independent work.
Låpsley was born in York, North Yorkshire, and grew up in Southport, Merseyside. Her middle name, Lapsley, is her mother's maiden name. She attended Greenbank High School and Formby High School for sixth form.
She has said that she adapted her stage name from "Lapsley" to "Låpsley" by adding the Scandinavian letter Å, partly because of a long-standing fascination with Scandinavia, which she discussed on the Scandinavian talk show Skavlan in 2016.
As a teenager, Låpsley sang and played in several bands around Merseyside before releasing her debut solo EP, Monday, recorded largely in her bedroom and uploaded to SoundCloud in 2013–2014. The EP attracted hundreds of thousands of plays and attention from UK music blogs, winning her the "One to Watch" prize at Merseyside's GIT Award in April 2014.
In June 2014 she performed on the BBC Introducing stage at the Glastonbury Festival, championed by BBC Radio 1 DJs including Huw Stephens and Zane Lowe. Her song "Painter (Valentine)" was playlisted on BBC Radio 1 later that year.
Låpsley signed to XL Recordings in October 2014 and released the EP Understudy in January 2015. She was long-listed for the BBC Sound of 2015 poll and also topped the Blog Sound of 2015 list compiled by UK music bloggers.
Her debut album Long Way Home was released on 4 March 2016 through XL Recordings. It reached number 32 on the UK Albums Chart and charted in several other territories, with critics highlighting its sparse electronic arrangements and emotionally direct lyrics. Around this time she made her US television debut on NBC's Today, performing the single "Love Is Blind". Songs from the record later appeared on the soundtrack of the film American Honey directed by Andrea Arnold and in television drama The Five.
In 2017, Billie Eilish cited the song "Station" as a main inspiration for her breakthrough hit "Ocean Eyes".