Adelaide Artist LOS LEO Shares New Single ‘I Miss You’
The track is taken from Los Leo’s upcoming album, LL-1000.
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‘I Miss You’ is the first single taken from Adelaide artist LOS LEO’s upcoming project, LL-1000, out November 14 (pre-save here).
A hyperpop production that gives off Justin Bieber vibes, ‘I Miss You’ is a heartfelt tune about the long-distance friendships that helped LOS LEO make it through lockdown.
“During the height of COVID, when borders were closed and isolation became the new norm, I found a lifeline in music along with some of my closest friends that live across the world - a musician in Los Angeles, a biomedical engineer in Switzerland, a graphic designer and carpenter in Australia,” says LOS LEO.
Together, the collective formed the virtual band Friendship Global and would organise meet-ups on Zoom, sharing ideas and writing songs, with each artist adding their spin to one track they all collaborated on. “At the end, we'd all jump on a call, press play, and hear how our ideas had evolved into a song,” remarks LOS LEO. “It wasn't even about making songs, it was about laughing, socialising and having fun in a strange time.”
Inspired by those chats, LOS LEO committed himself to writing, recording and producing an album within a calendar year, with the result being his forthcoming album, LL-1000.
“This project started as a creative experiment,” reflects LOS LEO. “I wanted to see what would happen if I built an album completely from scratch within a single year. No recycled ideas, no safety net, just momentum. I didn’t know what it was going to be when I started, but after a while I realised there was a thread running through everything. identity, reinvention, and change. This album really revealed to me what it was going to be over the year.”
“It doesn’t feel like a collection of singles to me. It’s more like an impressionist painting, songs written so close together that they bleed into each other. I want people to listen to it all the way through and let it wash over them as one larger arrangement, not individual songs.”
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Known to his family and friends as Tom Montesi, LOS LEO is an emerging pop artist who cites Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel and The Police as inspirations.
Since signing with Universal Music Group in 2016 following the release of his breakout single ‘Beautiful Mess’, LOS LEO has collaborated with a stack of big-name artists and shared the stage with the likes of LANY, DMA’s and The Veronicas.
LOS LEO enters a new chapter of his career with the release of LL-1000, a record exploring themes of change, identity, reinvention and expectation. LOS LEO calls the album “an impressionist painting, a collection of songs captured in the same moment in time.”
‘I Miss You’ by LOS LEO is out now. LL-1000 arrives Friday 14 November. Pre-save here.
