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The London based, French singer, songwriter and producer Léa Sen announces her debut album ‘LEVELS’ (PRE-ORDER). Coming on 30th May via Partisan Records, the first opus from one of the London scene’s most bright and exciting stars promises a blend of experimental pop with slinky R&B, woozy trip-hop, and warm, smudged guitars refracted through a deeply immersive journey through memory, self-discovery, and emotional growth. Imagined as a surreal, liminal hotel where each room holds a different chapter of her life, the record plays with the tension between reality and dreamlike abstraction.
To celebrate the announcement, today she shares the second single and centerpiece of the album, “lvl 6 - VIDEO GAMES” which follows last month's experimental pop gem “lvl 1 - HOME ALONE”. Her defining artistic statement so far, the song’s sweet, buoyant flow reminisces on childhood gaming with her brothers, interrogating ghosts of memories and separate realities from escapist fantasy (“But how does it end if you can never die?” she intones). This isn’t your usual pop single. It’s got the lush melancholy and experimental edge that keeps slipping out of your grasp, and right in the middle of it all, her voice—a velvet blade slicing through the haze.
Speaking on the track, Léa shares:
"‘Video Games’ is a window into how my past continues to shape me—whether I welcome it or not. It's a dance between memory and habit, between the world I saw as a child and the one I see now. Some things fade, some things linger, and some you simply learn to live with. The song explores both comfort and fear—how the past can weigh on you, but also how joy can always be found within it.”
Fans can catch Léa Sen playing live at her just announced headline show on 29th May at St. Pancras Old Church on the eve of her debut album release. Tickets go on-sale Friday 14 March, 10AM.
About Léa Sen
Music has always been at the core of Léa’s world. Raised in a home filled with sound, her father’s studio next door and her brothers' love of jazz and pop guiding her tastes, it was on her 15th birthday that Léa Sen was gifted her first guitar by her parents. From childhood, she knew she wanted to be a pop star, posing in front of the mirror in her family’s apartment and writing down song ideas, listening to everything from Ariana Grande to Jazz to SufjanStevens. The French singer, songwriter and producer’s music reflects that vast sonic palette, with its warm, smudged guitars, scattered glitches of electronics, jittering percussion, all topped with her mellifluous and inviting vocal.
In 2019, after experiencing a personal loss Léa Sen moved from Paris to London alone, barely speaking English and threw herself into music. A scary but successful gambit – by 2021, Léa’s voice was constantly on UK radio, singing on Joy Orbison’s glorious “better”. She’s worked with the likes of Sampha and Vegyn, all while building on her own artistry, with both her solo EPs, ‘You of Now’ pts. 1 & 2, receiving acclaim in The FADER, The Guardian, Crack, Dazed, The Independent and more, as well as support from BBC Radio 6Music, Radio 1, 1Xtra and Apple Music 1. Her forthcoming debut album ‘LEVELS’ is the result of that relentless pursuit—an intricate, cinematic album that captures the beauty, fear, and exhilaration of constant change.
