Lail Arad

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There’s a dusty pile of records in the corner of Lail Arad’s flat and each one of them has been stolen. From Woody Guthrie’s ‘Songs To Grow On’ through to The Incredible String Band’s ‘The 5000 Spirits’ they have all been liberated over the course of time from her parent’s collection.

“I sort of missed out on whatever it was my friends were listening to in the 90s - I was learning the back-catalogue of Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks…” says 26 year-old Lail.

It shows. Lail’s debut album ‘Someone New’, due for release in Spring 2010, is a fascinating storybook of youth, rich with wit and sprinkled liberally with the kind of sophisticated pop melodies you’d normally associate with her enduring musical heroes.

From the crafted pop perfection of album opener ‘Over My Head’ - a backwards love song wrapped-up in it’s creator’s wide-eyed puzzlement at so many facets of the 21st Century (“the universe is way over my head, stars we see they are already dead, does that mean we cannot move ahead?”) to the beautifully-droll self-loathing tale of ‘Who Am I’, which tells the story of a hippie-child gone bad, you’re left wondering one thing: precisely who is this sharp-tongued young songwriter?

“My parents came to London from Tel Aviv in the early 70s. My father studied architecture, my mother studied psychology” says Lail. “I grew up in a very creative household, it seemed perfectly normal to me but i guess it was a little unconventional. There was a growing collection of things found on the street or in markets around our house, and always lots of people visiting.
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