Kyla La Grange's second single "Been Better" was released on the 11th July 2011 on Chess Club on download and 7".

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“one of those precocious talents that everyone secretly fears. A gorgeous voice and a soaring chorus, the kind that makes your heart swell a little bit. Stirring stuff.”
- The Guardian

The fearsomely talented Kyla La Grange will release her second single, “Been Better” on Chess Club Records, home to early releases from Mumford & Sons, Local Natives and others.

Kyla has already attracted huge blog and press interest for her extraordinary voice and epic sound, and “Been Better” confirms her as mistress of the savagely passionate, twenty-first century torch song. It begins with her husky, almost snarled put-down of, “tell me none of your longings, I don’t need them, or you” and soars to a Phil Spector-indebted wall of drums and guitars that's vast enough to match her voice.

The B side is the brooding, bitterly poignant “I Could Be”, another song whose chorus will sweep you up and wash you away.

Kyla grew up in Watford and has been writing songs from the age of five, but it was only while studying philosophy at Cambridge that she began taking her musical talents seriously. A former boyfriend played her Cat Power and Elliot Smith and on hearing them she decided to start performing her own songs.

She is currently working with producer Brett Shaw on her debut album.