Los Angeles teen pop punk trio LED announce the release of their new single, “Your Perfect” — a bittersweet, emotionally honest track about the sting of unrequited love, the pressure of high school, and the exhausting feeling of never quite measuring up to someone else’s ideal. The single is taken from their forthcoming debut EP and arrives with the kind of raw, unfiltered energy that only comes from three people who genuinely have something to say.
The title is deliberate. “Your Perfect” — not “You’re Perfect” — is a piece of intentional punctuation that shifts the meaning of the phrase entirely. It is not a compliment. It is an observation, and a painful one: the recognition that someone else’s version of perfect was never really about you at all.
Edie Yvonne (vocals, bass), Layne Olivia (vocals, guitar), and Lockett Pentz (drums) — all aged between 15 and 17 — wrote the track together during spring break, in between shows, squeezing studio time into a schedule that already included a performance at the iconic Whisky A Go Go. Edie and Layne brought their own stories to the session: the drama of high school, the sting of crushes that went nowhere, and the slow realisation that trying to be someone’s ideal is a game you can never win. The song that came out of those conversations is direct, melodic, and emotionally precise — pop punk that sounds like it means it.
Edie and Layne’s voices are distinctly different in style and tone, but when they come together to write and harmonise, something happens that neither could produce alone — a third voice, entirely their own. Lockett holds the whole thing together on drums with the instincts of someone who simply hears music the way others hear speech. When the three come together, the chemistry is immediate and undeniable.
⇒ Check out our review for “Your Perfect” here.
LED formed after the three met at Shanelle Gray’s film camp — an origin story that suits a band whose songwriting already has a cinematic, scene-setting quality to it. They rehearse and write together every Sunday, and the consistency shows. In a remarkably short time, they have built a live reputation that belies their age — performing at Hotel Cafe, the Mint, the Whisky A Go Go, Aviator Nation Dreamland (where they opened for Diplo), and Licorice Pizza, among others.
