Indie Music Eargasm: Tove Lo

Tove Ebba Elsa Nilsson, better known by her stage name Tove Lo is a Swedish pop indie singer and songwriter with kinda rock-ish angst with her catchy songs and adhesive videos – this chic is going to get you high and be your habits in your eardrums.

On being a singer:

Tove Lo released a song called “Habits (Stay High)”, and the accompanying art showed the singer with mascara tears streaming down her face, in a photo that looked like it could have been snapped on an iPhone—about a year-and-a-half ago. It’s a big, sticky song, but not so big that it stuns your senses or numbs you into enjoyment.

The single, which just recently cracked the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, is an exclamation of lost love and self medication; it contrasts a giant hook and chorus,“I gotta stay high all the time/ To keep you off my mind” with incisive verses filled with quietly distinct, often bizarre metaphors: of Tove Lo eating her dinner in the bathtub, getting drunken munchies, seducing dads on playgrounds.

On being a song writer:

Her résumé includes writing credits for artists like Cher Lloyd and Lea Michele from “Glee”, and she’s firmly rooted in Sweden’s current network of pop characters.

The Queen of the Clouds

According to her interview in USAToday.com, Tove Lo shared the insights of her album, Clouds is split into three parts, titled "The Sex," "The Love" and "The Pain." Structured to represent the "general patterns of my relationships," the album's first tracks show her cheekier, flirtier side, while later cuts are tinged with a "string of darkness," says Tove, 26.

"For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary." – Tove Lo

She also shared about the smashing hit “Habits (Stay High)” which she describes as a persistent confessional of combating heartache with substance abuse. The song originally appeared on her Truth Serum EP, released in March and written about one particularly unpleasant breakup.

Her ex who inspired it has since reached out to her and "was really cool about it," Tove Lo says. "I was like, "I hope you don't mind," and he said, "I actually don't, I think it's beautiful."

Upcoming Tours:

• Wednesday 01 October 2014 at Baby's All Right, Brooklyn, NY, US
• Thursday 02 October 2014 at Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Saturday 04 October 2014 at Metro, Chicago, IL, US
• Sunday 05 October 2014 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston, MA, US

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Follow Tove Lo on the following social networks:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tovelo

Twitter: @ iamtovelo

Instagram: @ iamtovelo

Website: http://www.tove-lo.com/

Soundloud: https://soundcloud.com/tovelo