The Last Dinner Party guitarist L.Mayland Shares Their Debut Solo EP ‘The Slow Fire Of Sleep’
The five-track release explores themes of gender identity and environmental issues.
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The Slow Fire of Sleep is the debut solo EP from The Last Dinner Party’s L.Mayland (Lizzie Mayland).
The five-track record, which features the previously released single ‘Lighthouse’, was written and recorded during breaks in The Last Dinner Party’s touring schedule.
“These tracks definitely grew from those periods,” L.Mayland said as reported by Dork. “Suddenly finding myself in my quiet flat and filling that silence with my guitar and these sad songs. It was a way to process what was happening in my life, to come back to myself.”
The focus track and EP opener ‘Mother Mother’ is a sprawling acoustic guitar piece that allows L.Mayland’s vocals the chance to explore the open spaces between finger picks.
“It’s about not feeling like I have a place within womanhood—within the confines of what I understood as femininity at the time,” they explain. “There’s an expectation that women should have this inherent maternal instinct, and when I began to realise I didn’t have that… I felt that the problem was within myself rather than in the world around me—that I was somehow wrong.”
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J.Mayland launched the EP with shows in London and Manchester over the weekend.
On The Last Dinner Party front, the band took home the 2025 BRIT Award for Best New Artist and have locked in a run of festival dates across the globe, including performances at Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands, Lollapalooza in Berlin and Southside Music Festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut, America.
Stream L.Mayland’s The Slow Fire of Sleep EP here.
