Lou Doillon Debuts New Music Video For TOO MUCH Off Third Album
By: Tori Hartshorn Feb. 13, 2019
Parisian singer-songwriter, actress, model and artist Lou Doillon releases her music video for "Too Much" today-watch/share the video HERE. The video was shot by acclaimed filmmaker Matt Lambert (Gucci, Givenchy, Mykki Blanco) and cinematographer/Cannes Jury Prize-winner Christopher Auon. The track is off her recently released, third album, Soliloquy.
In support of the album, Doillon and her band will tour widely with U.S. stops including New York City's Le Poisson Rouge, San Francisco's Great American Music Hall and Los Angeles' Lodge Room. See below for more details-additional dates to come.
"Too Much" follows the release of Doillon's video for "It's You (feat. Cat Power)." The track received rave reviews from the likes of UPROXX, who proclaims, "The reigning queens of haunting love songs, Doillon and Cat Power's voices are a match in ghostly, melancholy heaven. Their gorgeous harmonies shine over a minimalist acoustic melody, with the two singers' voices interlocking in complex ways, alternately echoing and singing," while Stereogum furthers, "The track is an acoustic duet featuring both of their voices swirling around each other."
Following the global success of 2016's Lay Low and her 2012 breakout debut, Places, which earned her a French Grammy for Female Artist of the Year, Soliloquy finds Doillon teaming up for the first time with multiple producers on a single album: Cat Power, Taylor Kirk of Timbre Timbre, Benjamin Leabeau of The Shows and Dan Levy of art-pop duo The dø. "I had a desire to be more up front," she says of this new process. "Working with different people in different studios and with the different energies has brought something richer than when I worked with one producer. Extremes. I made the link between them."
Of the music, Doillon furthers, "With some songs, I think I was going towards something...and then it became something completely different. I am a kid of the Eighties and was listening to Nineties music: Massive Attack and Les Rita Mitsouko. The Slits too. I was raised at one point in my teens in the Caribbean and the only music we had was reggae. I had a desire to reconnect with these roots. I still love Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and Nick Drake. Let's channel it all."
Doillon grew up on theater stages, cinema sets and in front of some of the most renowned photographers' camera lenses. At 30 she composed her debut LP, Places, which went double platinum in France, earned her a Victoire de la Musique (the French Grammy) for Female Artist of the Year and sold over 300,000 copies worldwide. She has since shared stages with artists including John Cale, Pete Doherty, Animal Collective, Jarvis Cocker, John Grant and Richard Hawley, and toured the world playing festivals and headlining venues in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Belgium, Australia and more. Notable television appearances include "CBS This Morning: Saturday" in the U.S. and "Later with Jools Holland" in the U.K.
LOU DOILLON LIVE (more dates to be announced)
June 28-Los Angeles, CA-Lodge Room Highland Park
June 29-San Francisco, CA-Great American Music Hall
July 1-New York, NY-Le Poisson Rouge
SOLILOQUY TRACKLIST
1. Brother
2. The Joke
3. All These Nights
4. Last Time
5. Too Much
6. It's You (feat. Cat Power)
7. Burn
8. Flirt
9. Nothings
10. Soliloquy
11. Windows
12. Snowed In
June 29-San Francisco, CA-Great American Music Hall
July 1-New York, NY-Le Poisson Rouge
SOLILOQUY TRACKLIST
1. Brother
2. The Joke
3. All These Nights
4. Last Time
5. Too Much
6. It's You (feat. Cat Power)
7. Burn
8. Flirt
9. Nothings
10. Soliloquy
11. Windows
12. Snowed In
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