So after getting recommendations I found the perfect guy to help me with this, he is Liam Watson and I went to work at the Toe Rag Studio in London. On the second one I wanted to try out something else. Quick and easy, raw and simple, that album was Please Don’t Hate Me. I got this record contract in Iceland and started writing, and a few months later the album was out. My first album was an album that kind of came very naturally. How would you go about describing the evolution of your music from your first album to your latest release? You got you record deal by being discovered on MySpace some time ago and you’ve already released 3 albums. I’ve been through many stages of music through the years, from Whitney Houston to PJ Harvey, from gospel to rock and digging into many genres along the way… What kind of music did you listen to when you were growing up? And yes I guess that somewhere in my songs you can find influences from all this mash up. I consider myself very lucky to have such fine family mix. All of this seems such an incredible mix in term so how it may influence your creative output – does it at all? I read that you were born in London, to Sri Lankan and Icelandic heritage. I never planned on the singer/songwriter career but i’m happy that I’ve ended up where I am today. It wasn’t until later that I started singing and performing my own music.
First taking piano lessons and then going on to the bass guitar when I was a teenager. I’ve been very fortunate to get the opportunity to learn music since I was young. How did Lay Low begin? From what I’ve read about your musical abilities – it seems that music and learning about music is something you have been passionate about for a long while? I wasn’t sure I was going to be performing this music as a solo artist or as a band so we quickly found a name to put on the poster. This was right before I was asked to perform my first show as a solo artist playing my own songs so they needed something to put on the poster. The name came as a suggestion from a friend.
What inspired this name? Does it say something about yourself and the project as a whole? We’re here to talk about Lay Low – your alter ego. Also discussed is her love for Icelandic poetry and her very diverse musical interests – PJ Harvey and Whitney Houston feature, for the first time, in the same sentence. Through this double-vision conquest, they miss out on the very choco-cinnamon, whisky-mist that whets our appetite, coming from Iceland’s Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir – and all 3 of her albums that have gone unduly without parade in most country’s bar her own.īest Fit caught up with her for a little chat ahead of the show to discuss how she rose from dreaming about a career in music to actually having one, all with the help of pre-Justin Timberlake MySpace. Still, it’s testament to the bi-partisan way of the commercial music industry, that A&Rs only gander in seedy New York bars and deserted British pubs looking for the next Strokes or Libertines. Lay Low is described as “a rich chocolate sound with a sweet cinnamon rasp and a sip of whisky to take the edge off” on her Facebook page – an extended metaphor to challenge all extended metaphors –but which actually isn’t far wrong.
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