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First Listen: Kelly Lee Owens, 'Kelly Lee Owens'

Stream the intoxicating debut album from the London-based singer/producer who brings a meditative songwriting style to club rhythms.
Kelly Lee Owens' new album, <em>Kelly Lee Owens</em>, comes out March 24.

Kelly Lee Owens' self-titled debut is a folk-pop album – kind of like how Arthur Russell, a longtime hero of the singer/songwriter/producer for whom she names the collection's wonderful second track, is a folk-pop artist. That is, completely and not all. Its melodies are effortless, romantic and repetitive; its atmosphere replete with pastoral open spaces and the kind of spiritual longing at the

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