We’re not even 10 days into an already difficult and overwhelming new year, and we can use all the peace and tranquility we can get, especially through the meditation of music. English alt-pop songwriter Erin LeCount has offered a soothing soundtrack via new single “I BELIEVE,” an exquisite synth- and baroque-pop floater out today on Atlantic Records. Like last fall’s “MACHINE GHOST”, it both haunts and comforts, and lures us deep into our own headspace as we close out the first week of 2026. “‘I BELIEVE’ is a cynical, existential song about apathy, passiveness in your own life, disillusionment with the state of the world, what it feels like to turning to every possible external source to tell you how to feel and exist — religion, self help books, magazines, astrology, lovers, antidepressants,” LeCount says. “I wrote it about a pursuit of perfection, faith, and meaning soundtracked to relentless synth-pop production.” Find your own peace and flow with “I BELIEVE” both inward and outward below.
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