Track of the Week: Erin LeCount soars into 2026 with ‘I Believe’
There’s nothing better than being proven right, except maybe being proven right less than ten days into the year. Since Erin LeCount turned inwards and dedicated herself to producing her own work, refusing to compromise on her art and vision, we’ve had her pegged for huge things in 2026. Nine days into the year, she delivers.
She delivered all through 2025. Awarding her our prize for ‘Producer of the Year‘, LeCount’s story is one that should be held up and repeated over and over as a reminder of the glory to be found if you believe in yourself.
“There’s something about seeing things through from like the feeling to the writing to the production to the end of it that makes me feel more connected to the songs,” she told Far Out last year, talking up through how she came to the conclusion that she needed to do it all herself.
“I don’t understand why I would ask someone else to paint my experience or what I’m writing about,” she said as the revelation – when personal art is what she wants to make, why would she let another person make it for her?
Since then, LeCount’s music has levelled up and up. Her 2025 EP, I Am Digital, I Am Divine, was a start-to-finish tour de force proving her potential. When she then returned with new tracks, ‘808 Hymn’ and ‘Machine Ghost’, the potential returned as outright power. Getting better each time as she hones her skills more and more, her latest offering, ‘I Believe’, takes it to new levels once again.
The quality of ‘I Believe’ is staggering. This is the type of song a decades-seasoned pop producer would turn out, it’s the level of polish that the biggest names are looking for when they go calling to famed and well-known producers.
For LeCount, barely in her 20s and still new to the game, to be delivering this? It’s overwhelming to even imagine the places she could go.
But beyond the actual build of the track, ‘I Believe’ is made special by the intimacy of it. As LeCount decided to produce herself to ensure her art was kept personal, a track like this is the value of that coming to fruition, as under the alt-pop energy of it, there’s a vulnerable tale of recovery, hunger for something to believe in to pull you through, and the aching numbness and apathy felt in the darkest of days.
Reading the lyrics is like reading a poem, and then when put to music, it’s a symphony. Given a sonic nest to soar and sweep you up in its tale of desperate desire, LeCount has once again painted her own feelings perfectly and painted a masterpiece in the process.
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