- 2025-04-10
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MUSIC
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Erin LeCount Releases New Song “Marble Arch”
London-based singer-songwriter Erin LeCount will release her sophomore EP “I Am Digital, I Am Divine” on April 23, 2025.
The EP is her first project in two years since the 2023 EP Soft Skin, Restless Bones and comprises 5 songs, produced by Erin LeCount.
Erin LeCount said of the EP, “Five songs produced and written by yours truly :D the product of many hours making digital orchestras and choirs and melodrama from plastic keyboards in my garden shed. overflowing with many big feelings, spilt milk and questions of whether there’s something inherently wrong with me, and if i can be happy and still write songs. still figuring that out truthfully.”
From the EP, she released the second single called “Marble Arch” on March 21, 2025, following “Silver Spoon”.
The song received its first play during BBC Radio 1's Future Pop with Jodie Bryant.
She wrote and produced the track in her unsound proofed garden shed.
The accompanying music video was directed by Erin LeCount and Cal Mcintyre.- Erin LeCount said of the song, “'Marble Arch' is about all the times I tried to be absolutely perfect. I was so mean and rude, because you've just got no energy, no emotion. Striving for perfection actually made me a very cold and unpleasant person to be around.”
She continued, “Marble Arch was the first song I made for this EP. The centrepiece that has been my most personal labour of love for almost two years now, a perfectionistic wonderful obsessive process of a song unlike any other I've ever worked on. I could hear it in my head before it ever existed. For all those who feel there is fault in their core or that there is something inherently wrong with them, and for the version of myself that felt more of an object or decoration than a person and that life / love was a constant, exhausting performance that she couldn't quite deliver.” -
Erin LeCount told Erin LeCount about the song, “I think I've never been more pain trying to make a song like the biggest labor of love I've ever had to do. I'd say this was probably like two years in the making. I had such a strong idea of what it sounded like when I started writing and making it. And I wasn't gonna be satisfied until I heard exactly that. It was true perfectionist pain, which is kind of what the song's about. So I'm fine with it, but I think it's special, because like, God got.”
She continued, “It has so many different lives. It's existed in like, so many different forms. But I just It sums up everything I love about making music. And it's all these, like, ridiculous orchestral things and harps and strings and kind of Renaissance stuff that I've made from a plastic keyboard. Not got the budget for the orchestra, but it's a difficult process, especially when you are so specific on what you want to hear. But I think it's definitely the thing I'm most proud of. I've never made something that I'm that proud of, I think.” - source : BBC Radio 1
