Lay Low is an indie country music singer from Iceland. I have serious trouble wrapping my head around the fact that she isn’t from the South, because her sound is so incredibly classic that the fact that she makes music that isn’t in English and doesn’t speak to my Southern-tuned ears bothers me way more than I’d like to admit.
While her voice is all indie folk rock, her instrumentals make me think that she’s Patsy Cline’s long lost lovechild who stole her soul at birth. When I hear “My Secondhand Heart”, from Lay Low’s album Farewell Goodnight’s Sleep, I actually have two other songs playing in my head simultaneously: “I Fall to Pieces” and “Walking after Midnight” (It’s way less cacophonous than you’d think). I can’t escape the similarities, and they fit so well with her own sound that I don’t want to escape.
If you enjoy this song, be sure to check out the rest of the album so this Icelandic country western indie music star doesn’t freeze and/or starve this winter. Although if she had those things to worry about (along with love lost, other miscellaneous economic troubles, and possibly a dead pet), maybe she’d make more awesome country music…
