Lawrence - Poppies
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Lawrence - Poppies
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Smallville Records – SMALLVILLE 73
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP
Country: Germany
Released: Mar 20, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House
Lawrence returns to Smallville — the label that has long felt like his natural home — with a four-track 12" that does what the best Lawrence records always do: arrive quietly, ask nothing of you, and remain long after the needle lifts. Restrained, poetic and emotionally precise, the EP nudges his sound forward without abandoning any of the qualities that have made him one of deep house's most quietly essential voices. Artwork and typography by Stefan Marx, as ever the perfect visual complement to the music.
Angels and Ray open with warm chords, soft swing and an emotional clarity that is deceptively simple — the kind of writing that sounds effortless and takes years to arrive at. Ocean Drive drifts the record into sunlit late-night territory, unhurried and luminous, before Poppies closes things in gentle melancholy and hypnotic groove. Classic Lawrence — which is to say, music that operates somewhere between the dancefloor and the interior, equally at home in both.
