Lea Sen - You of Now Pt. 1 [Translucent Blue Vinyl]

Open-eared and open-hearted: these are the watchwords of Lea Sen's music. At just 22 years old, the Paris-born, London-based, songwriter and producer has established herself as one of the capital's most in-demand talents, meandering between vocal features for Joy Orbison to solo work that references everything from Bon Iver's electronic timbre and folk guitars to Sampha's impressionistic lyricism. At 15 Sen learned the guitar and began to craft songs with an experimental, intuitive sensibility. Production and mixing skills soon followed out of a DIY necessity. In 2019 she moved to London from her home of Paris and caught the ears of drummer Kwake Bass and singer-songwriter Wu-Lu. A session with DJ and producer Joy Orbison produced the stand-out track "Better" from his 2021 mixtape, Still Slipping, Vol. 1. And that same year Sen's tender version of David Bowie's 1976 track "Golden Years" was the highlight of the Modern Love compilation album, featuring the likes of Helado Negro, Khruangbin and Meshell Ndegeocello.The five-track debut, You of Now Pt. 1, presents the self-assured maturity of an artist twice her age, with all tracks written, produced and mixed by Sen.