Erin LeCount, the 23-year-old self-taught artist and producer from the UK, releases her debut EP ‘Pareidolia’ today via Atlantic Records. The six-track project was written, recorded, and produced entirely by LeCount herself, traversing art-pop and baroque-pop across heavy synth basses, live strings, and synthetic shimmery harps. The music video for single “Alice” is out now alongside the release. “Pareidolia is a self-written and produced EP that tells the story of a downward spiral,” LeCount says. “The tale of falling down a rabbit hole, a willing return to self destruction.”
The EP takes its name from the psychological phenomenon of perceiving meaningful connections between unrelated things, seeing shapes in clouds, a face in the moon, a distorted lens through which LeCount has written every track. “I have lived vicariously through these songs the last year, crafting them in their intensity and heart and impulse, writing through that distorted lens and playing the unreliable, occasionally paranoid narrator,” she says. Listeners and critics alike are already calling ‘Pareidolia’ one of the most fully realized debut EPs in recent UK music, a statement of artistic vision that arrives fully formed.
LeCount takes the EP on the road in May with four UK headline dates, culminating at the London Roundhouse, her largest headline show to date. She also joins Lorde’s All Points East date on August 22nd in London. Tickets are on sale now.
TRACK LISTING: ‘Pareidolia’
- “I Believe”
- “Don’t You See Me Trying?”
- “808 Hymn”
- “American Dream”
- “Machine Ghost”
- “Alice”
TOUR DATES: ‘Pareidolia’ Tour:
Tuesday May 12 — Manchester, UK — O2 Ritz
Thursday May 14 — Glasgow, UK — SWG3
Friday May 15 — London, UK — Roundhouse
Saturday May 16 — Bristol, UK — Bristol Electric
Saturday August 22 — London, UK — All Points East