Though LÉON’s sublime, eponymously titled debut album LÉON seems to have (regrettably) fallen short of too many listeners’ radars last year, the Swedish singer-songwriter’s inaugural LP was firmly embedded in heavy rotation here at Albumism HQ throughout 2019, all but ensuring its rightful place within our year-end Top 50.
Prior to releasing her first full-length affair, LÉON spent a handful of years cultivating her reputation for top-tier pop songcraft—coupled with her workhorse approach to recording—by steadily and methodically unveiling eight singles and three extended play releases between 2015 and 2018. So it should come as no surprise that less than a year removed from the arrival of LÉON, she has returned to share a new single in the form of “In A Stranger’s Arms,” a stirring, stripped-down rumination about picking up the emotional pieces when a relationship dissolves, as eloquently conveyed in the song’s chorus: “They say heartbreak always hurts the worst the first time / You feel you're gonna die, you're blind, it's hard to see / That in time you will find that you moved on / Then you'll risk it all to feel it all like the first time / In a stranger's arms, oh / In a stranger's arms.”
Listen to “In A Stranger’s Arms” below and keep your eyes and ears peeled for this ascendant artist’s next musical move, which will likely materialize sooner than later.
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