2024 Welsh Music Prize winner L E M F R E C K recently released his new single ‘Stay Calm’. Both insurgent and personally charged, riven with squealing samples and twitchy beats, listen below. L E M F R E C K speaks on the track, “Stay calm is about your environment being on fire and there is nothing you can do about it. It’s the realisation that you can work on yourself as much as you like to but there are just some things you can’t change”.
‘Stay Calm’ follows previous singles ‘Fine’, ‘Slip Away’, and ‘Come Outside En’, all tracks feature on L E M F R E C K’s upcoming EP ‘We’ve Been Here’, due for release on 2 May via The Orchard.
He comments on the release, “The whole project is about how I struggle to learn my lesson. I have always thought that if a certain situation happens again, I would make sure I made the right decisions. Yet here I am again doing the same things that eventually lead to stress”.
Recent achievements for L E M F R E C K include winning the 2024 Welsh Music Prize up against stiff competition from the likes of Skindred, Gruff Rhys, Slate, Elkka & more. He also received a Welsh BAFTA nomination for his self-produced and directed BBC Documentary ‘Black Music Wales’ which featured the likes of Benji Webbe from Skindred, Jamie Jones, Mace the great, Juice Menace, Sage Todz, MC Eric & Technitronics.
In terms of live, L E M F R E C K recently supported Children Of Zeus in Cardiff, and he’s also confirmed to headline a stage at FOCUS Wales.
