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Lilou & John

Feel the way to freedom

“Within dangerous areas, a wailing sound of song screams and warbles to captives within, who must either feel the way to freedom or perish in the Snake Pit.”

The Jolly Gallivanter

Rope or blade

“The dank languishing sounds find the listener in consideration of rope or blade, yet like Leonard Cohen, is able to traverse the intense introspection leaving the audience not feeling isolated rather sensing a coexistence with the isolated silos around.”

Tim Whale, Emerging Indie Bands

The music is armed

“It is easy to see the band in front of a scene in a small club where cords run all over the stage. A well-used PA with old stickers on vibrates in a corner. In lighting from a pulsating strobe and blood-red headlights, the band is hammering out musical attacks against a miserable contemporary society. Only one thing is certain – this is war and the music is armed.”

Tom Andersson, Nya Tider

 
 
Raw Emotion

“Lilou sings to defy both multinational corporations and conventional musical keys. It’s fascinating in a harrowing manner.”

Thurston Hunger, KFJC 89.7 FM

Each Album Tells A Story

“Something that I love about Lilou & John is that every album of theirs sounds distinctly different from the last yet is still unmistakably them. Each album tells a story, breathing its own life, its own sound, expressing a new meaning.”

Hiraeth

Nearly indescribable

“Perhaps it should be mentioned that Lilou & John are Swedish, then, and that they are nearly indescribable. A punk/folk band originally, the duo — John plays guitar, and Lilou handles the iconoclastic and expressive vocals — ventured into some of their earlier metal and punk influences for their fifth release. This band is like… well, not any single other band. We can describe them in terms but are basically making points on a scatter diagram, trying to vector in on a central description.”

Brett Stevens, DMU

 
 
Blackness and mystique

“I’m almost hypnotised by Lilou’s vocals. Her dark alto voice breathes of blackness, mystique and rock attitude, like a magical music incantation I just have to listen to again and again.”

Pär Berglund, Meadow Music

At the end of the world

“Perfectly crafted meshing of auditory soundscapes and the lonely feeling of being in a gasoline station at midnight staring down the hot dog roller at the end of the world. Truly a true turning point in art.”

Ghost of Centralia

Protest singers

“The singers vibrato brings in mind associations with Nina Simone, that also was a protest singer – but in a completely different context and time. Lilou sings with a pathos that one finds among traditional protest singers such as Buffy Sainte-Marie.”

Projekt Morpheus



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