Lorna Irvine looks at an impressive rising talent.
Call it the "post-James Blake effect" if you like, but there is a particularly British kind of soul that seems to have captured the imagination over the last five years: melancholy, low-key and sparse.
The XX may be at the more Gothic end of the market, and London Grammar more trendy, but Merseyside singer Holly Lapsley Fletcher, who simply records as Lapsley, belongs to neither camp as she is more up-tempo. Only a little, mind.
Initially, her bedroom-recorded music caught the attention of Radio 1's Huw Stephens, but pretty soon XL Recordings snapped her up.
She is part of the BBC Sound 2015 finalists, as tastemakers everywhere have warmed to her soaring voice, which is world-weary, swooping and heartfelt.
Not bad for just eighteen.
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