L.Mayland

“There’s something interesting in the time we spend asleep - a time of rest and healing, but also lost time in a way,” Lizzie Mayland says of the titular inspiration for their debut solo EP. “Especially when that silent restful time is far away from home, when you miss out on those hours of unspoken connection with the person you share a bed with at home. What is lost there? It’s also a comment on the guilt that comes with sleeping soundly in a safe, peaceful bed while so much violence and destruction is taking place all over the world in those same hours… What am I not seeing?”
 
For all of the perceived glamour of intercontinental touring, red carpets and record-breaking chart success, it tends to be the unexceptional settings which play host to the moments of true creativity. In Lizzie’s case, it was their empty flat, nestled in an anonymous suburb of South-East London.
 
During the liminal space between tours with their band The Last Dinner Party - neither on-the-road nor spiritually reacclimatised to their day-to-day existence back home - Lizzie sowed the seeds which would go on to become their debut solo EP, The Slow Fire Of Sleep. “These tracks definitely grew from those periods,” they say. “Suddenly finding myself in my quiet flat and filling that silence with my guitar and these sad songs. it was a way to process what was happening in my life, to come back to myself.”