Kyla La Grange unveils "garage-influenced" single "Love Harder"
Kyla La Grange has shared brand new single "Love Harder", a rhythm-heavy electro cut produced by Jakwob.
"I always wanted to write a garage-influenced track," La Grange says to Popjustice. "I grew up next to Watford High Street where for a long while it was just wall-to-wall garage in all the bars and clubs, and I tried not to like it to begin with because I thought I was an emo indie kid, but it seeped in and now feels like such a big part of my teenhood. I think there’s something pretty special about that time when you first start going out dancing and trying to get into places with a doctored ID, and it felt like an experience I hadn’t used to inform my writing before."
La Grange's last LP - the magnificent Cut Your Teeth - was released in 2014. Since then she's released a range of standalone tracks, including "So Sweet", "Hummingbird", "Skin", and "Justify".
Last year La Grange told us that there were no plans for a new album: "I don't feel like albums should be made just for the sake of shoving a load of songs together. For me, albums should have a thread running through them - a narrative or a visual or sonic theme. The songs I'm writing at the moment are all really different to one another, so to me it makes better creative sense just to release them on their own."
La Grange plays a UK tour this summer - dates below.
June
- 12 – Mama Rioux’s, Birmingham
- 13 – King Tuts, Glasgow
- 14 – Night & Day, Manchester
- 15 – Omeara, London
- 16 – Thekla, Bristol
- 17 – The Hop & Ruin, Brighton
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