\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div> \t\t\t\t\tErin LeCount performs onstage during a concert on Dec. 5, 2025 in London, England. <\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorne Thomson\/Redferns<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tHave you always been someone who feels they\u2019re more able to express themselves better through music?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWriting is where I figure out everything about myself that I need to be self-aware of. It\u2019s so telling and a lot of the time making music is\u2026 When you\u2019re in this flow state, especially being at computer and production, that\u2019s where I hit into it. When my brain is switching between this flow between writing the song and being at the computer and your hands moving. You often reveal things to yourself that you were not aware of before that moment, and that is how I work through everything in my life.<\/p>\n \n\tFor better or worse, that comes out really honestly in the music, and I do struggle to filter that. It\u2019s just coming from this subconscious place, and then all of a sudden it\u2019s on paper or it\u2019s recorded on a screen. When I play it back, it\u2019s almost like having, I don\u2019t know, your therapy notes read to you or something. It\u2019s like an untangling of thoughts. It\u2019s all incredibly personal, but I don\u2019t really know how else to write. It\u2019s been a communication to other people, but it\u2019s also been a method of understanding myself and how my mind works. I\u2019m pretty on the go all the time. I don\u2019t stop to think about things until I sit down, and I\u2019m at the computer and that\u2019s the only quiet reflection time I have.<\/p>\n \n\tAs a writer in a different way, I can understand that.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s all the same. It really is all the same. I [had always] wanted to be a writer, whether that was novels or journalism. That\u2019s where the biggest revelations come about.<\/p>\n \n\tCan you tell me more about some of your recent songs? Let\u2019s start with \u201cI Believe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI Believe\u201d is the first track on this EP. It was a song when I felt really existential about what purpose is and the meaning that I apply to things. I write a lot about God for someone who\u2019s not sure what they believe in, it\u2019s a really ongoing theme.<\/p>\n \n\tI have noticed that.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI just keep writing as a method of untangling and that\u2019s just a very long string to pull. It never ends. \u201cI Believe\u201d was questioning my identity and who I am, and how I compartmentalize all these pieces of myself and really wanting to believe in something bigger. A plan to feel that comfort. This cynicism about the whole thing. It was just a big question mark really. I think that was the perfect opening because it just opens up this entire conversation of what is my purpose? I\u2019m going to go out and look for it.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tErin LeCount attends world premiere Of \u2018Wuthering Heights.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUnique Nicole\/FilmMagic<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tWhat about \u201cDon\u2019t You See Me Trying?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t[It\u2019s the] second song of the EP; they flow directly into each other because \u201cDon\u2019t You See Me Trying\u201d is about feeling out of control in your life and reverting back to old habits and self-destructive patterns because it\u2019s the only thing you do feel you have control over. I think there\u2019s a real theme of questioning yourself and feeling small in the grand scheme of things. Just clutching at straws to try and control what you can. The movement from \u201cI Believe\u201d \u2014 and [questioning] what my purpose is \u2014\u00a0and \u201cDon\u2019t You See Me Trying\u201d being [about], \u201cI don\u2019t have one and I\u2019m losing my mind about it, and I\u2019m going to find a drive even if that\u2019s a really poisonous, scary, self-destructive thing.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhat does this album mean to you? It sounds like you\u2019re working through a lot of existential things, which is quite relatable to anyone who\u2019s been 23.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI knew that I wanted to make an EP about all these different stages of a downward spiral, sort of a relapse or regression of some sort. There\u2019s slow progression of losing your perspective and beginning to see lies in yourself through a really distorted lens. [The] pushing and pulling with that. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve lived really vicariously through. Making this EP was like acting out all those self-destructive tendencies through the music rather than engaging with them personally. I\u2019ve been down and lived the sequence of events in the EP so many times, and I think I just wanted to make something productive from it. Something that felt cathartic and something that had all that impulse and that, sort of, recklessness.<\/p>\n \n\tPareidolia, the word, is about a tendency to perceive meaningful patterns between things that aren\u2019t related, like shapes and clouds or a face in the moon. It was just the perfect word to sum up what our brains do when we don\u2019t understand something or feel out of control of something or can\u2019t perceive things correctly. We just go back to the patterns that we know and we try and make them fit and try; associate them with something new.<\/p>\n \n\tOne track that really stuck out to me was \u201cAlice.\u201d I thought that was a really interesting take. In a not crass way, no matter what your vice of choice is, someone who enables that behavior, even just by being there, is a really relatable idea. <\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAlice\u201d is the last track on the EP because it is a bit of a gut punch, even for me to sing live. I didn\u2019t realize how much it was until it came to touring. It\u2019s about a person; it\u2019s also about yourself, it\u2019s about myself. Sometimes there\u2019s a relationship that brings up all the things about yourself that you don\u2019t like, and you see them reflected in another person right back at you. When you struggle with the same thing, there\u2019s this intense bond that happens that feels like nobody else in the world could possibly understand. Sometimes that is the worst person for you to be around. That\u2019s incredibly difficult. When I wrote that song, that feeling \u2014 of you two being the only people in the world who deal with it \u2014 sticks with you for a very long time. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFurmaan Ahmed<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tHow did the song help you work through things?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWriting that song took a really long time because it was hard to get an accurate and fair portrayal of both the people in that scenario. You\u2019re navigating your relationship to each other, but you\u2019re also navigating the relationship you have to your vices and yourself. For that all to be reflected in one person, for one person to bring that all out in you, is an incredibly scary and confronting experience.<\/p>\n \n\tFor a long time, it was a version of the song that blamed her entirely, and then it was a version that blamed me entirely. Then it was all about me and nothing about her. Other times it was too focused on the love between us and not enough on the vices that we both had that got in the way. It was a really complex song to navigate, but it\u2019s a complex scenario to navigate. It\u2019s far more universal than people think it is.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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