When Jesse and Dizzy of The Similou discovered the keytar their lives changed forever. Nothing felt logical any more. The only thing they could focus on was to create, create, create. The result is ever-so skilful music that has glittering, check-patterned dance floors all over the world heaving. First single ”All this Love” is already putting their plan into action. With its perfect chorus, danceable groove and ass-kicking energy, the song has already become one of the most featured tracks on Scandinavian radio stations. However, none of this would ever have happened if it wasn’t for a mysterious bartender from the rough part of harbour town Gothenburg which is also the town that The Similou call home.
The old Similou was more cautious and less punk. But then we started having lunch at the local pub where we sometimes went for a pint. Working as a bartender at this place was a guy that we now call “The Mastermind”. With a mix of cunning questions and sly flattery, he fooled us both indirectly into starting up the new improved Similou, now with a The! “The Mastermind” inspired us enormously, mostly because his way of thinking is so different from anybody else’s. Speaking to him makes us happy, because it makes us understand that there is still so much to learn, Dizzy explains.
Jesse continues: - To start singing was to start exploring unknown territory, and it was the curiosity of what we could achieve if we did which made it so very exiting to make music again. All of a sudden being in the studio making music was just as titillating as ordering a pint from “The Mastermind” at the pub.
The two perfectionists behind The Similou are totally different characters. It is probably this strange fusion that makes them sound so diverse. Everything from the jazzy, cocktail-like title track “So Hot Right Now” to the Ghostbuster-influenced club boogie “Ladykillers” and Jesse’s cocky rap in ”Play With Us” with Dizzy’s Hall & Oates-influenced chorus on top. With one ear on Earth Wind & Fire’s high-pitch vocals and the other on Van Halen’s magical reverb-filled bass drum, The Similou create a strange mix of beatronica, disco-pop, synth-punk and queer-metal – all within Jesse and Dizzy’s unconditional and boundless love of music.
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