{"product_id":"lola-young-my-mind-wanders-and-sometimes-leaves-completely-black-vinyl","title":"Lola Young - My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely - Black Vinyl","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 15\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description prod-desc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* We are a very small record shop with two members staff, so please be patient when contacting us with your questions. Alternatively, you can check our \u003ca style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"FAQs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boilerroomrecords.co.uk\/pages\/faqs\"\u003eFAQ\u003c\/a\u003e section as the information you need need may be there. *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* Please note this is a pre-order and wont be dispatched until 25\/05\/23. Anything ordered with this item will not be dispatched until that date. All pre-orders are dependent on allocation from our distributors. *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e22-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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhere previous releases \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehave seen Lola interrogating her life with honesty, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Mind Wanders \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Sometimes Leaves Completely \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a new era for the young singer-songwriter. Love is a theme she’ll always tackle in her music, she says – “it’s the most relatable topic, isn't it?” – but\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e on this project she’s fully stepped out of her comfort zone, testing her writing ability to confront new topics, while mining new depths of her creativity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Mind Wanders \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Sometimes Leaves Completely, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLola set out with the idea that no one is two-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edimensional, 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. “It’s my journey towards bei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eng a woman and figuring out who I am,” she says. “There’s a lot of references to people telling me I won’t make it [in the music industry]. It’s almost me talking to myself, addressing the difficulties you go through growing up, your insecurities.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDealin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eg with themes such as love bombing, gaslighting, body image and depression among others, it’s a relatable listen for any young person growing up today. It’s peppered with vivid details, like her ex buying her a record to play on her birthday – “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edon’t even \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elisten to punk, do you know me?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e” she sings on “Semantic Situation”), and someone saying she needed to read a book titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Be Happy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand I think that was a bit of a dig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e” (“Revolve Around You”).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Pretty In Pink”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis her “talking about the way that I h\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eate life through love,” she says. “Like I'm falling out of love with life, but I can't help it, it's not about you, it's just about the way I'm feeling about the world, but in more of an existential way.” It’s a piano-led ballad in the time signature of 7\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4, “which makes you nod your head in a weird way, it’s a bit Radiohead-y,” she says. “When we do it with a band, the drummer can never get it right!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile ballads are undoubtedly her thing, there’s a distinctly London edge to Lola’s music, bolstered by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eher love of old hip hop and UK rap. She’s not averse to a crossover, too: she collaborated with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArrdee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e on his “Who \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWoulda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Thought” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etrack, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has brought that inner-city edge to the new project which has “a house party feel,” she says.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Money Won’t Wake”, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ea track written about a “super rich kid” who spends their money in the wrong way, “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecrushing pills on leather seats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e” has a broken, head-nodding hip hop beat. With its hazy, stumbling feel and Mike Skinner-style syntax, “Stream of Consciousness”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edoes exactly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e what the title suggests: it’s a direct look into Lola’s headspace. At one point, she argues with herself in her head: “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis isn’t a stream of consciousness, this is more like a big fat fucking no-one asked!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo put the record together, she flew to LA, me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeting producers and songwriters like Frank Ocean favourite Malay, Cass Lowe (Tinashe, Ray BLK) and Jim-E Stack (Charli XCX, Caroline \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePolachek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e). “There's videos of me being like, ‘No, do the drums like this’,” she laughs, of her hands-on approach to music-m\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntr\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, aged just 19. She comes from a musical and creative family; born in Croydon to a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJamaican-Chinese\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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 th\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ee likes of D’Angelo, Prince and Joni Mitchell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce she started releasing (the mature, personal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRenaissance \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas her three-tracked debut), the accolades came in thick and fast: a Brit Rising Star nomination, Amazon Next Breakthrough artist, a spot on the B\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBC Sound Of… poll, an Elton John co-sign, an Island Records signing. No artist likes comparisons, but Adele – the one Lola gets constantly – is one she happily takes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut as is often the case in life, when things are going to plan, something inevitably go\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ees wrong. Lola has repeatedly suffered from cysts on her vocal cords, which makes singing tough, and problems with her mental health. Then there was Covid, which struck just after Lola had just begun releasing her music to the world. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e of my plans for m\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ey music got cancelled – that was really stressful,” she says. Whereas many albums trickled out of lockdown sessions, that wasn’t true for Lola, who spent the time “sitting in my bed and thinking and being depressed”. When you’re not having any \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereal life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eperiences, what is there to write about?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLola’s fundamental aim is to “know that I've helped someone else or pushed someone else through something,” she says. “I've got songs that have done that for me. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to hear that one of my songs I've actually writte\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003en has helped someone else do that is incredible.” And it’s already \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehappening:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e at her gigs, she finds that people come up to her afterwards, telling her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e music has made an impact on them (at a recent show, she bought everyone who came to say hi afterward\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003es drinks for the whole night).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComing from a lineage of powerful female British vocalists, Lola Young is undeniably on the path to greatness. Shrugging off the “rising star” label to cement herself as one of the country’s rawest talents at just 22, her de\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebut project \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Mind Wanders \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Sometimes Leaves Completely \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a defining statement: a work of pain, heartbreak, and inner strength.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 15\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 15\" class=\"page\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col class=\"ol1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col type=\"1\" start=\"7\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col type=\"1\" start=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col type=\"1\" start=\"8\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col type=\"1\" start=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col type=\"1\" start=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col type=\"1\" start=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col start=\"1\" type=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col start=\"1\" type=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col start=\"11\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col start=\"11\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003col style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Lola Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44641254932788,"sku":"","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2208\/6196\/products\/Lola-Young---My-Mind-Wanders-and-Sometimes-Leaves-Completely---Black-Vinyl.jpg?v=1678356651","url":"https:\/\/16-kingland.myshopify.com\/products\/lola-young-my-mind-wanders-and-sometimes-leaves-completely-black-vinyl","provider":"16 Kingland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}