Lola Scott and the swirling gentle turmoil of "20"

 

photo by Mia Rankin 

No matter how old you are there is almost something magical that happens when you think of days gone by. Depending on your head space at the time, you might relive not so good times but then, again, you might refresh the computer in your head by splicing together the times when important strides were made, of grand accomplishments or loves and even the loves lost feel like gains and the possibility, the hope of new ones. There was a time when I only dwelled on the regrets, the things I didn't do or say and that is only a recipe for disaster and future failures. Please don't do that. 

I thought of the past though veiled memories and so much more when I listened to Lola Scott's intimate chill moving reflections on "20". With her lovely vocals so upfront as to feel sometimes like she is inches from your ear spilling her guts a bit and with gentle cyclical guitar patterns that feel themselves like 16mm memories, scratched up and torn she recalls relationship ashes and sparkles in beautiful ways. Her melodies are pop forward but in an almost anti-pop way, especially on the chorus as the beats anchor the sort of vintage quality in today, in now. Lovely stuff full of wistful imagery dusted with with bits of longing and hope.  

"I wrote this song about someone that I had fallen back in love with after not seeing each other for over 10 years. He was one of my first relationships when I was in high school and we ended up back together when I briefly moved back to my small hometown during isolation."

-Robb Donker Curtius

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“Synth-heavy indie pop floating in melancholic drama” - it’s the perfect description from Lola Scott herself of her multi-faceted musical stylings. Over the past 12 months, the young Sydney-based artist has worked tirelessly on expanding her musical offering.

Established as a gun-for-hire, she has toured internationally as a guitarist, racked up a bunch of co-writes and most recently set up shop as a producer – all part of her steadily evolving face as artist set to be a force to be reckoned with.

Introduced to music by her Dad who loved new-wave, post- punk synth pop and alternative rock, she quickly began piano lessons, but her love for guitar sparked with lessons from age eight. The hobby became a full-blown obsession with classical guitar studies in high school and a degree to follow. playing in a heap of college bands punctuated the process, before Scott realised that the only way to tame her inner control freak was to start a solo project.

Along the way her childhood exposure to Joy Division, The Cranberries and New Order merged with current loves of artists including Banks, Broods and Maggie Rogers – all of which have had an impact in some way on where she has arrived as an artist, and furthermore the journey to come.

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