Erin LeCount close to Godly on new EP ‘I Am Digital, I Am Divine’.

Erin LeCount is asking the big questions, even if she’s not ready for the answers. On I Am Digital, I Am Divine, she conjures that vulnerability into a striking storm - and it’s one of 2025’s must-listen projects.

The 22-year-old has been releasing music since 2022 but arrives in her fullest form on her new EP. A five-track epic that boasts impeccable cohesion, LeCount is a tour de force of her own.

I Am Digital, I Am Divine opens on the title track. An overture for what is to come, it’s with a murmur that LeCount welcomes you into her own world. “There’s no use crying over spilt milk, he doesn’t understand why it’s such a big deal to me,” the singer confesses.

The Essex-born star possesses an enviable pen and the imagery of ‘I Am Digital, I Am Divine’ makes for the perfect exposition. LeCount lets herself drown in self-produced synths, down and out as she accepts, “I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel.”

That quarter-life crisis is at the heart of the EP but, deep within the struggle is a persistent resilience. On that title track she clings to the belief of being a “good girl with strong bones” before an outro revels in the acceptance that “to ache is to be alive” - if I Am Digital, I Am Divine had a blurb, those six words would be it.

On the four tracks that come, LeCount grapples with her past, present and future. One song flows into another with remarkable cohesion, the artist painting an irreplaceable landscape from her home studio.

On ‘Marble Arch’, the songwriter is a glutton for affirmation. Desperate to breathe life into an empty heart likened to ‘museum corridors’, she also fears any salvation - “I’m scared, if I learn to be happy I’ll forget to write songs,” she admits in a moment of self-sabotage.

Over the three minutes of that track, LeCount hovers above her own body to watch her spine “carving against your fingerprints, like a marble arch”, searching for beauty in her hopelessness. Still, that determination to transcend into something more persists. “I don’t wanna be cold anymore,” she coos over a cinematic outro.

That determination is at its most potent on ‘Godspeed’. A track asking to be blasted at full volume, the flick boasts LeCount’s trendiest production on the EP without stepping out of her carefully cultivated own lane.

“Godspeed to the girl after me,” she sends as a well-wish before following up, “abandon faith in everything you believe”. The singer comes the closest to jubilation here, revelling in her freedom as the buck is passed to her lover’s next conquest.

I Am Digital, I Am Divine is marked by LeCount’s desire to play with the senses. Lyrics often leave a taste in the mouth and that ability is at its most powerful on ‘Sweet Fruit’. A cry for help, the singer moves through the seasons unnoticed and pleads for attention - whether it comes from a priest, gardener, doctor or lover.

Painting herself as a lonely, forgotten fruit on a branch, LeCount’s search for care gets more and more distressed as the song snakes its way through four minutes and into its anguished outro. For almost all of I Am Digital, I Am Divine, the songwriter cuts a solitary figure, but that changes on EP closer ‘Silver Spoon’.

The project’s most impressive track, and an under the radar 10/10, LeCount has penned a magnum opus in the twilight of her career. Having spent so long in the shadows, the artist opens the track by plucking up the courage to enter a garden party full of a love interest’s family home.

Surrounded by the love of a family that isn’t her own, LeCount has everything she called for on ‘Sweet Fruit’, yet remains in a state of desperation. The EP’s musings on past, present and future climax here as she jumps from generational trauma to future children - “you ask about kids, I don’t know if I’m able,” she confesses as the weight of her past verges on unbearable. It’s the type of song that warrants lectures on its content but behind the detail is the catchiest of pop songs.

This is elite-level songwriting and LeCount is building a world of her own.

9/10

Erin LeCount’s ‘I Am Digital, I Am Divine’ has been added to under the radar’s Elite Picks.