Say Lou Lou is releasing a new album – "L.A. was the most frequented place we had been to"

An interview with Sweden's coolest music exports in recent years could have offered better conditions. Say Lou Lou just spoke to radio stations around the world – the activity is to say his name in different languages, as well as the list of radio listeners and, as in rock documentary, can illustrate routinely the deadliest parts of rock star life.

But it's not just Duon's forced labor to keep the FM band alive, to worry about it. Tvilleduon Elektra and Miranda Kilbey in Say Lou Lou have, despite their age, already managed to silence a dreamy pop-wave who has been living for years on the lists of the whole world, has pop culture square (dad was a singer in The Church , mum guitarist in the Swedish punk band Pink Champagne) – and in free time, model the twin sisters for, among others, Gucci, who sought a vogue of the 70s.

The twin sisters Elektra and Miranda Kilbey are simply perfect stars of the old pop, and therefore seem a little scary.

However, fears about two stars of rock starry shame as soon as the duo settled on a couch at the record company's office in Södermalm, Stockholm.

Absolutely, the Kilbey sisters look like an updated edition of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards – the duo seems to share a worn crackle suit – but rather than cool and tough, Elektra and Miranda Kilbey are as fun to interview as Gray Thursday companies in a record company: Infected by the duo's energy, public relations experts and social networking experts smile on their computers even after the sisters literally left the office to move to Paris.

The brothers and sisters are grown in Stockholm and Sydney but live in Los Angeles today.

"We went for the first time in 2013 and hated it so much, it was the most lively place we had stayed in. We lived in Venice and there was no Uber, the Taxi was $ 800, we did not feel anybody.We did two writing sessions a day, four weeks in a row.We sat down and wrote songs with old guys who had written The sky is a place on earth and Like a prayer Of type. We really enjoyed something immensely. But yes, after making a video, meeting people and giving a concert, it opened up a whole world of people and collaborators who felt good for us, "said Miranda.

Today, Beachwood twins live under the Hollywood sign with two friends in a home and an associate music studio. It's also the city of Los Angeles, and in particular the legendary rock'n'roll rock of Laurel Canyon, which influenced Duon's latest album Immortal.

After the breakthrough with acclaimed Lucid dreaming Had the Kilbey sisters gone a long way as the duo scratched when they felt they were walking in the same lane as before. Instead, Miranda and Elektra recovered from the mountainous Laurel Canyon landscape and started again.

– A hundred years ago, Laurel Canyon was a large number of hunting lodges where those living in Hollywood would shoot pheasants. Everyone still lives in small hunting cottages, wooden houses with fireplaces. There were very strange vibrations. We did not go with anyone else, we never went out, we did not party … said Miranda, while Elektra was whispering " " With an apple half in the mouth.

– … all right, in the studio we were maybe celebrating but we did not go out. We were just in the studio from noon to noon each day. It was really the Hollywood feeling in the area, black and scary. The murders of Manson still hang in the air. There are strange little alleys, strange mountains, strange houses, says Miranda.

The result was the dream of seven long fever tracks seven tracks Immortal, a retro-dapple plate where the bands sound as much as James Bond as David Lynch, while the guitars select Golden Eagles melodies.

– Initially, we wrote an entire record as if we were undercover agents. Some songs that did not come were a real narrative, like that of Vesper Lynd in a Bond movie, says Elektra.

Opera Rock!

– Yes! We really wanted it to be a conceptual record, it is not so fashionable that everyone thinks "single, single, single". I guess we may have to refer to it sooner or later. But we wanted to do it as a concept album – without becoming a musical – where we wanted all songs to have their own purely textual identity.

The high-flying projects to release a modern rockopera dressed in dreamy psychotic strings have also been funded from their own pocket.

"We spent half the budget to hire the best Los Angeles running players, that's the best money we've spent, so if we're going to do some stretching, then we have to leave, do we think So we rented Capital Studios someday, even though we are an independent band that defends all the costs ourselves, we would like to let the fat be luxurious and vivid.The recorded piano is an old Steinway grand piano of Nat King Coles, the echo chamber used Paul McCartney … so hearing an orchestra of twelve people playing songs you wrote was a dream come true.I cried four times that day, said Elektra.

Although, in recent years, we usually say goodbye to the legend of rock, there is no passage to be said of the burial always abandoned the format of the rock'n'roll. 39; album.

Elektra invites you to play all recorded digital tracks from the album – single songs, drums, groups and all that is part of it. Immortal – via an analog tape recorder: a production pin producing a warm and thick sound, but possibly also an illustration of the attitude of the duo with regard to the digital musician. The sisters start talking to each other when the social media issue arises.

"If we had seen what David Bowie had eaten for breakfast or if Kate Bush had posted pictures of his birth … I do not want to know, they have talked so much about their art that nothing else has happened. is necessary but we live in the era of overtime.I want to give you a feeling, but I do not want to tell you how to experience us – and I do not want that we tell me how to use art.It seems like everything is going to be a hoax today, "Miranda said.

– You can watch the pictures that had the most interaction on Instagram, all our pictures were selfies with pretty hair and beautiful makeup, fills Elektra.

– Sorry but are you surprised? Did you think that the inspiring images in which you wrote poetry would be the most popular? Miranda interrupted.

"Yes, but I hoped for it," laughs Elektra.

At the same time as the Say Lou Lou sisters are releasing their second album, they also reach the age of rock at 27 years old. Miranda tells you that there is one thing you have thought about a lot.

– There are astrological theories, but also clearly pop-cultural ideas around this age. The brain has become clear, you are breaking up with some people, you realize that even parents are just people … you have grown up in reality. For us, there has been such a year of breakthroughs, ideas on which people are energy vampires, how to live, their relationship to alcohol and drugs, and so on. We have a clear sense of things.