New band Lola Colt launch their debut single ’I Get High If You Get High’ through Too Pure Singles Club on July 8. Taking their name from a 60’s spaghetti western, the six-piece with 3 girls and 3 guys, are fronted by Danish vocalist Gun. Winning plenty of admirers and an NME Radar Buzz piece before they’ve even released a note, Lola Colt have been making waves across London with their raw, powerful live performances.
Lola Colt originated as the song writing partnership of Gun and lead guitarist Matt, who came together through a long-standing love of vintage films and cinematic sound, as well as having freakishly similar record collections. Film scores have featured heavily in both their lives and continue to be a big influence in their music today. Gun trained as a figure skater as a child and regularly used movie soundtracks as her backing music instead of the latest pop tune or standard classical piece. When Matt first started writing music, it was in the form of film scores and theatre productions. As the band developed into a six-piece, their earliest ideas were to create a soundtrack to a film that hadn't been written yet.
Breaking out from their psychedelic underground beginnings, visuals are a trademark feature of their live shows, where cinematic projections compliment a collection of unusual visual instruments used on stage. A VJ acts as a seventh member of the band with scripted sets performed in real time. The band have also picked up some unusual Asian instruments on their travels and vintage equipment which they "twist and torture with modern day effects and techniques to give them a unique sound".
Lola Colt have secured the producing talents of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Jim Sclavunos for their debut album, due early 2014.
The band launch their single with a special headline event on July 9 at London’s Electrowerkz.
Stream 'I Get High If You Get High' below.
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