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Lilou & John

Feel the way to freedom

“Within a 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

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, White Art Collective

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

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

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

High energy

“Multilayered, high energy and thought-provoking lyrics. Recommended!”

Ernst Robert Almgren, Maskulint

Amazing

“Amazing, I love it!”

Luigi Vespasiani, Radio Rock 106.6

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.

 
 

Poppy and captivating

“Their music is poppy and captivating, the songs get stuck fast, but at the same time the music contains both seriousness and depth. The ability to combine the two qualities has the duo in common with, among other things, Morrissey.”

Joakim “Oskorei” Andersen, Motpol

Nina Simone

“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

Eerie, brooding darkness

“Eerie, brooding darkness dressed in melody and bad attitudes!”

Edward Nordén

Saturday, beer and sausage

“Saturday, beer, sausage 99% meat and a new album by Lilou & John max volume! Perfect!”

Abraham Patriark

Motörhead and Dead Kennedys

“It is difficult to compare their sound with something else. Critics have compared them with Motörhead, Nina Simone, Roky Erickson, Dead Kennedys, Bob Seeger, Buffy Sainte-Marie and The Clash. They undoubtedly show that they are a band that cannot be easily defined by narrow genres.”

Thomaz Wiberg, Rosa Traktor

A unique art product

“The band’s musical style is very varied and progressive while their lyrics are politically incorrect, which in combination with their visual appearance create a very unique art product.”

Nordfront

Traversing the Introspection

“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

Sound UFOs

“Sound UFOs Lilou & John from the Swedish countryside are hard to grasp. They go from punk to folk in a second, make you laugh with an absurd clip, before grabbing you with deep and profound vocal intensity.”

Aodren Pecnard, Djolo

 
 

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

Dark and Edgy

“Take one part Dead Kennedys, one part filthy British alley and two crazy Swedes and you have Lilou & John! Lilou & John is an alternative indie rock duo with provocative lyrics and a dark, edgy northern female voice.”

Midgård

The Clash

“Finally … I have waited but now I sit here and listen and it feels about as good as I felt when I saw The Clash in June 1977 … but this is now, 2019, and thanks for that! God knows, I need it!”

Hans G. Andersson

Praise the Lord

“Praise the Lord for Lilou & John!”

Tommy Karlsson

Addictive

“The music has something addictive in itself.”

Adam Szabelak, Narodowcy

Culture warriors

“The prime culture warrior duo of today.”

Granskning Sverige

Bertolt Brecht

“Weill/Brecht for the new 20s.”

Fnordspotting

The Apocalypse

“If the world’s going to Hell in a handbasket, all I’m bringing is my bow, my knife and my Lilou & john t-shirt. Gotta look good for the apocalypse!”

Henrik Jørgensen

A musical scourge

“The musical scourge of political correctness.”

Mazzy

Weirdos

“Two intense weirdos”

Anonymous guy on DMU



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