Louise Lémon Releases Enchanting New Single, Devil

It’s easy to hear why the music that Louise Lemón makes has been categorised as ‘death gospel’; all you have to do is take one listen to her new single, Devil. Dark and moody, soulful but sinister, it snakes its way through what feels like centuries of heartbreak and loss before nestling itself firmly inside your veins, your history, your life. Above the track’s laidback, bluesy swagger, the Swedish singer’s voice floats lightly but also heavy with sorrow and melancholy. It’s a song that tells a story of profound loss – as much in the music as in the words of the singer herself.

Devil is the first track to be released from the forthcoming EP of the same name, and the follow-up to A Broken Heart Is An Open Heart, last year’s critically acclaimed second album. It’s a beautiful example of her understated power, which has seen her draw comparisons to the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle and A.A. Williams. Yet at the same time, as Devil demonstrates, Louise Lemón creates an atmosphere and a sound that is uniquely her own and which shimmers with her typically open- and broken-hearted honesty.

“Making this EP,” she said, “I wanted to do it in an honest way and really make it a natural process. After making my last record, which was very produced, I wanted to head to the studio and record it straight as it sounds. I wanted to capture the live sound and I wanted to get the grittiness on tape. It is really interesting – when creating you ignite your brain. So, when recording my last album, I already started to make the EP. Like a closure and beginning at once.”

That, then, is the crux of this song, which comes to a head in the chorus: ‘When I needed him / When I was bleeding for him / He didn’t walk out on me / Oh, he just left.’ Yet, really, the person in the song never actually leaves. He’s in the very fabric of this song, her words, held captive by and frozen in a memory that never truly fades.

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