L.Mayland has shared their debut EP ‘The Slow Fire Of Sleep’, alongside performing two intimate live shows this weekend.
The EP, which features five tracks including recent single ‘Lighthouse’, was written during breaks between touring with their other project, The Last Dinner Party. “These tracks definitely grew from those periods,” they say. “Suddenly finding myself in my quiet flat and filling that silence with my guitar and these sad songs. It was a way to process what was happening in my life, to come back to myself.”
The collection includes focus track ‘Mother Mother’, which explores Mayland’s relationship with gender identity. “It’s about not feeling like I have a place within womanhood – within the confines of what I understood as femininity at the time,” they explain. “There’s an expectation that women should have this inherent maternal instinct, and when I began to realise I didn’t have that, and in fact never fit in with the strict rules of the gender binary. I felt that the problem was within myself rather than a problem in the world around me – that I was somehow wrong.”
The EP’s title track addresses environmental concerns, featuring a distinctive outro. “It was important to me that the end of the song didn’t feature my voice at all,” Mayland says. “I wanted an apocalyptic feeling, like a texture, that Will and Immy [producers Will Lister and Imogen Williams] captured perfectly.”
Their dates in full read:
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9 St Matthias Church, London, UK
11 The Castle Hotel, Manchester, UK
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