Leila - Album Launch

Mali Bone at The Blue Basement

Leila is a British artist and producer of Latin American and Italian heritage, based in East London and working within the capital's underground scene. The music combines post-disco sensuality with the sharper edge of electro-clash, built on heavy synthesised bass, angular percussion and blunt, provocative lyrics. The songs often move between longing and self-destruction, and the reference points given for the project are Lady Gaga, LCD Soundsystem and PJ Harvey.

The launch presents Dark Disco, the debut album, which deals with existentialism, sex and dancing. Its writing draws on the experience of being a woman of Generation Z, responding to the pressures of contemporary life and looking back wistfully at the simpler dating and dancing culture of earlier generations. The album mixes imagined and real experiences into a darkly glamorous world in which desire turns into rhythm.

The Blue Basement is a London venue that hosts concerts and shows. The evening suits listeners drawn to dance-pop with a darker, confrontational streak and to the album's themes of desire, youth and social change.