{"id":67401,"date":"2021-01-22T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=67401"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T10:49:06","slug":"lo-shows-serious-depth-with-blu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/01\/lo-shows-serious-depth-with-blu\/","title":{"rendered":"LO Shows Serious Depth With &#8216;BLU&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Counting labels such as a Cascade, Mixmash and Majestic Casual amongst those he has worked with, the Berlin based <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6bdx22A1shpd9U6YAd8Vto?si=7jMg_VJ_QzKtGXooVEaaqg\">LO<\/a> moves with full steam ahead in 2021. Preparing to release his new album, today he presents \u2018Blu\u2019 from the tracklist and it\u2019s a stunning listen.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Always pouring various influences into his style, the songwriter and producer uses his own vocals for the first time with this record, alongside beautifully balanced analogue synths and rich trails of melody. He offers \u2018Blu\u2019 as a stream of consciousness from the heart, revealing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLove is a strange thing and break ups are even stranger. &#8216;Blu&#8217; talks about this feeling of someone still having power over your thoughts and actions long after they have departed, the universal dilemma of the head versus the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can hear this one below and you can already pre-order his album, &#8216;Night Owls&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/push.fm\/ps\/night-owls\"><strong>here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: BLU\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3z1qi1lU8W9D0pYWkwp5H0?highlight=spotify%3Atrack%3A0FzRHEXgwLQVlCBvR2oKPg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting labels such as a Cascade, Mixmash and Majestic Casual amongst those he has worked with, the Berlin based LO moves with full steam ahead in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":67402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,21453],"tags":[22443,446,17408,113,20352,22780,77,370,116,79,10677],"class_list":["post-67401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","tag-absent-mind","tag-berlin","tag-blu","tag-germany","tag-hanna-brunt","tag-lo","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-review","tag-single","tag-single-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hx7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67792,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/02\/lo-is-lost-in-a-dream-with-brand-new-single\/","url_meta":{"origin":67401,"position":0},"title":"LO Is &#8216;LOST IN A DREAM&#8217; With Brand New Single","author":"Hanna Brunt","date":"12\/02\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"With his Night Owls album on the horizon, Berlin based LO is gearing up for the release with another single, out today. 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