La Leurentop Turns Voice Memos Into a Mirror on New Double Album

Belgian-American, UK-based creative La Leurentop isn’t playing it safe with her forthcoming double album Fragments in the Basement of My Mind. Raw, reflective and intentionally imperfect, the project pushes back against today’s hyper-polished, algorithm-driven soundscape.

Built from recovered voice memos, unfinished demos and recordings spanning nearly two decades, this isn’t a studio-scrubbed body of work. It’s textured with breath, distortion and the kind of sonic cracks most artists would edit out. For La, that’s the statement: the clean version isn’t the truth.

Across the project, La treats sound like a field journal. These tracks feel like artefacts and evidence of becoming rather than songs engineered for perfection. In an era shaped by AI-level finish and digital sameness, Fragments in the Basement of My Mind deliberately leans into humanity: the feeling before it’s fully understood, the vulnerability before it’s explained.

Sonically, the album moves through art-pop with an alt-rock backbone, layered with cinematic textures and experimental edges. The songs evolve as they unfold, resisting formula and mirroring the unpredictability of the inner journey.

Lyrically, La digs into love, rage and freedom, unpacking inherited systems, personal cages and the quiet internal negotiations that come before liberation. It’s introspective but universal.

Words by Evie White