As the weather gets colder and the colors outside grayer I feel more and more like listening to darker and gloomier music. And when the old The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen and Depeche Mode records get tiring I’m on the hunt for something new.
That’s how I found The Lost Poets – a duo playing their own sludgy interpretation of rock and swamp blues. The band, hailing from Stockholm, Sweden released their debut EP “Insubordia” this year. As main influences it cites Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, The Raconteurs, Soundgarden and Nick Cave.
Shortly after the music video to their lead single “Ode To K” was a fact.
The video reminds a gloomy rock’n’roll version of a very twisted black-and-white Maigritte painting. Very bizarre is the moment when the band makes some vintage-looking experiments wiring a cot with a baby wearing the same full-black masks as the two musicians.
“Ode to K” was one of those songs that just came out of nowhere. It’s essentially about a man selling his soul to the devil and how his life was before and after he died. It’s also an homage to the love of his life for trying to help him. It’s all very suggestive and the inspiration, as always, comes from my own life in a twisted sort of way.”
says vocalist/guitarist David Rosengren.
Check out the full EP for free on Soundcloud and check out their official website thelostpoets.se
