Lapsley, born Holly Lapsley Fletcher in Southport, England, has been making music since she was a teenager signing to XL Recordings in 2015. Her debut Long Way Home established her as one of the more interesting voices in British electronic pop, and she has spent the years since developing a production approach that has grown more confident with each release. "JERICHO" is from a 2025 run of material that put her back at the center of attention. The Jericho reference is architectural: a wall, the act of bringing it down, the question of what you do once the thing you built for protection is gone. Lapsley has always written about emotional vulnerability with this kind of structural metaphor underneath, and "JERICHO" is a clean example of that approach working at full force. Ten years into a career that started when she was barely past her teens, she sounds more certain of what she is doing than ever. "JERICHO" is that certainty on record.
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