Lola Young - My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely (LP)

22-year-old Lola Young has one of those voices. You know, the ones that are impossible to ignore: made for smoky dark clubs as much as hushed arenas, it's got a depth, rawness and huskiness that reduces crowds to pin-drop silence.

There was never really any question about whether Lola would become a singer. She started writing poetry and songs aged 11, before doing her first pub gig at 13. She enrolled into the prestigious Brit school and released her debut full-length, Intro, aged just 19. She comes from a musical and creative family; born in Croydon to a Jamaican-Chinese father and English mother, and raised in Beckenham, South East London, she grew up listening to Avril Lavigne and Eminem, later finding herself drawn to the likes of D'Angelo, Prince and Joni Mitchell.

On My Mind Wanders And Sometimes Leaves Completely, Lola set out with the idea that no one is two-dimensional, or perfect. Armed with that vocal that switches between soft and strong at a moment's notice, Lola uses a folk storytelling and diaristic style to offer the listener a front seat to immersive snapshots of her life.

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Tracklist:

1. Stream of Consciousness
2. Revolve Around You
3. Annabel's House
4. Semantic Situation
5. Pretty in Pink
6. Money
7. What Is It About Me
8. Black Cab
9. Don't Hate Me
10. Chill Out