Lætitia Tamko's first live experience was her debut gig as Vagabond. "It was a pretty small show of maybe 15-25 people at an all-ages venue in New York. I was just excited to be performing live; I was riding that high for a long time," she says, unable to really remember how the crowd reacted because that night was, rightly, "all about me in my head. I kept thinking to myself, 'Oh my god, I can't believe you're doing this. Wow! That just happened'. I was in my own little world."
Fast forward to March 2017 and the 24-year-old is just a day away from going on a month-long tour of the US (which she's not yet packed for), having just put out a storming debut album full of DIY indie rock that filters emotional insecurity through heavy riffs and distinct vocals. "Once I felt that I could make something I was happy with, I was pretty determined to put my entire soul into it," she says of the short-but-sweet eight-track release. Having grown up in "a pretty quiet house" in which her family would play jazz ("there wasn't a large scope of things"), Lætitia learnt to play the guitar before heading to university and started writing her own songs in 2014. Though she didn't really think of music as ‘a career', Lætitia knew she wanted to keep making albums, releasing them and touring.
Discussing her music, she confesses: "I can't put my finger on it. I jump around a lot, and incorporate a lot of different things into one song." While ‘
Infinite Worlds' has a lot of rock instrumentation to it (‘
Minneapolis'), there are also elements of electronic music and slowed down synths (‘
Mal à L'aise' – which in English means ‘uncomfortable'). "It's hard for me to think of a package name for it all," she says, before considering the emotions she wants the listener to experience. "I want them to feel less alone," she begins. "People, including myself, listen to music so often to feel understood or represented in a way; in a feeling, in a thought or in a process - whatever it is… I guess that's just how I experience music."
