Say Lou Lou

Stylish Australian/Swedish pop duo Say Lou Lou originated with twin sisters Elektra and Miranda Kilbey. Although the pair's sound progressed from the polished dream pop heard on their initial EPs and the 2015 album Lucid Dreaming toward the trip-hop textures and Laurel Canyon echoes of 2018's Immortelle, the sisters' transcontinental upbringing continued to shape the expansive, faraway atmospheres of their work.

The Kilbey siblings divided much of their childhood between their mother's residence in Stockholm and their father's home in Sydney, where he fronts the band the Church as Steve Kilbey. After issuing their debut single "Maybe You" independently, they attracted interest from the French electronic imprint Kitsuné, which put the track out in 2012 and thereby set the group's trajectory in motion. Early concerts ensued, and during 2013 the sisters established their own imprint À Deux, issued the Julian EP, and secured a Columbia Records agreement for the subsequent EP Better in the Dark. They devoted the remainder of that year to tracking their Columbia debut Lucid Dreaming, which appeared in April 2015.

Once touring for the record concluded, Say Lou Lou reconvened in Los Angeles to develop material drawing from Portishead, Laurel Canyon singer/songwriters, film composers such as Lalo Schifrin, and reflections on shifting female positions throughout the 2010s. Those efforts yielded the duo's second album Immortelle, produced by Trent Mazur and Dashiell Le Francis and released via À Deux/Cosmos in September 2018.