LYAM
LYAM has been UK underground music’s best kept secret, dropping sporadically, a studio perfectionist with the greatest network of collaborators. That all Changes in summer 2024 as he comes roaring out of the blocks with 2 HOT 4 THIS featuring Young label artist John Glacier and announces his second artist album visionary The Art Letting Go.
“Hear me on the radio, never felt so in the zone” LYAM kicks off his comeback single with a statement of intent while Glacier’s verse doubles down; “feel like I am too hot for this, pretty mean boss not a little miss”. Over a driving primal synth-punk number, both kindred MCs stretch out, shrouding the opps in the Ferrari burnout smoke. “Gonna love myself all over again, you can’t hurt me” sings out the outro, hinting that the song is about regaining your swag after a break up.
LYAM is one of British alternative club rap’s most mysterious and elusive artists, returning 2024 after a four-year album hiatus with show stopping mixtape The Art Of Letting Go out Friday 6th September featuring appearances from friends and associates like John Glacier and Wiki and production from likes of Mura Masa and Jeshi collaborators ineedsound.
An introvert, LYAM is the underground best kept secret, who has been biding his time for a new moon to move to the centre stage. He was a founding member of the hugely influential if ephemeral TTY phenomenon, alongside Jeshi and John Glacier. The Art of Letting Go is his masterpiece, chopping through the trials and tribulations of creating in London in 2022 wih with the silky-est flow and piles and piles of quotables.
LYAM folds in genres like post-punk, breakbeat jungle, all with a rain-flecked cinematic luminosity centred on LYAM’s lithe, supple bars. These tightly programmed 11 tracks are a sort of releasing spell, bottling the psychic charge of former relationships, setting it alight and letting it go. As such, the release marks the end of an era for LYAM and the beginning of a new one. Raised in Walthamstow from a Jamaican family (real name Liam Harris-Williams), as a teen he was on his way to becoming a professional basketball player.
LYAM has been UK underground music’s best kept secret, dropping sporadically, a studio perfectionist with the greatest network of collaborators. That all Changes in summer 2024 as he comes roaring out of the blocks with 2 HOT 4 THIS featuring Young label artist John Glacier and announces his second artist album visionary The Art Letting Go.
“Hear me on the radio, never felt so in the zone” LYAM kicks off his comeback single with a statement of intent while Glacier’s verse doubles down; “feel like I am too hot for this, pretty mean boss not a little miss”. Over a driving primal synth-punk number, both kindred MCs stretch out, shrouding the opps in the Ferrari burnout smoke. “Gonna love myself all over again, you can’t hurt me” sings out the outro, hinting that the song is about regaining your swag after a break up.
LYAM is one of British alternative club rap’s most mysterious and elusive artists, returning 2024 after a four-year album hiatus with show stopping mixtape The Art Of Letting Go out Friday 6th September featuring appearances from friends and associates like John Glacier and Wiki and production from likes of Mura Masa and Jeshi collaborators ineedsound.
An introvert, LYAM is the underground best kept secret, who has been biding his time for a new moon to move to the centre stage. He was a founding member of the hugely influential if ephemeral TTY phenomenon, alongside Jeshi and John Glacier. The Art of Letting Go is his masterpiece, chopping through the trials and tribulations of creating in London in 2022 wih with the silky-est flow and piles and piles of quotables.
LYAM folds in genres like post-punk, breakbeat jungle, all with a rain-flecked cinematic luminosity centred on LYAM’s lithe, supple bars. These tightly programmed 11 tracks are a sort of releasing spell, bottling the psychic charge of former relationships, setting it alight and letting it go. As such, the release marks the end of an era for LYAM and the beginning of a new one. Raised in Walthamstow from a Jamaican family (real name Liam Harris-Williams), as a teen he was on his way to becoming a professional basketball player.