3.1.2013
Voted “#1 Best New Music of 2013.” Read More
-City Arts Magazine
9.26.2012
“Heavenly, haunting pop duo Lemolo is riding a wave. The duo spent much of 2012 making figurative splashes with its fast-selling, self-released debut, The Kaleidoscope, which has lingered on local bestseller charts since its release in early July. Lemolo’s sound swims the murky waters between mellifluous, beguiling pop and darker, unsettling tones and themes. On stage, when the girls’ eyes aren’t locked in intense dialogue with each other, they’re often closed, seemingly lost in an embrace with internal muses.” Read More
-City Arts Magazine
6.29.2012
“Lemolo, a local dream-pop duo, has sold out both of their shows at the Columbia City Theater celebrating the release of their new album, ‘The Kaleidoscope’. It is a very impressive first album. The debut single, “On Again, Off Again,” captures the bones of Lemolo’s sound, which is built on layering: the notes on the electric guitar bend and echo on top of sparse, deliberate drum patterns. A backing chorus of voices slides hazily in and out, with Grandall’s clear vocals piercing confidently through the fullness. We need more women musicians [like them] breaking out of the Northwest indie scene.” Read More
-Seattle Times
6.28.2012
“I’m torn between starting this post with “this Lemolo album is seriously haunting me” and “Lemolo could totally beat up your favorite synth-y indie dream-core band” because they’re both true. In the case of the former, I find myself humming harmonies absentmindedly at varying points in my days and nights, wondering what the song is — and then realizing it’s a track off of The Kaleidoscope; and the case of the latter, the lyrics are smarter and more gripping than anything I’ve heard in this genre before, and the emotion-pendulum they swing on is more vast. Whichever way you slice it, The Kaleidoscope is a keeper. It’ll be your new go-to for warming up, coming down, pondering, soundtracking, arriving, leaving, making out, and everything in-between. The album as a whole is intelligent and tight, meandering over to casually shred your face off in one moment and placing it’s hands directly on your heartstrings the next.” Read More
-Three Imaginary Girls
5.3.2012
“Lemolo, Light and Lovely: Duo has Seattle Smitten” Read More
-Wenatchee World
4.9.2012
Treefort Music Festival Review “Lemolo having finished work on their first LP were an imitation of no one. Meagan Grandall’s vocals as they reach for the high’s are ethereal, the bass tones of her brooding humbuckers provide a moody swelling counterpoint.” Read More
-Sound on the Sound
12.2011
“Best New Seattle Bands of 2011: Seattle has been smitten with the ladies of Lemolo since first meeting them last spring. This year, we fell head over heels after the pair recorded a KEXP In-Studio live performance, and dazzled summer crowds at Doe Bay Music Fest and Bumbershoot. The songs are sweetly simple, yet profoundly moving.” Read More
-Seattle Magazine
11.13.2011
“City Arts Festival Review: I was very excited to check out Lemolo’s beautiful and captivating music and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s easy to compare the duo to a band like Warpaint but that’s taking the simple way out. Their songs are fragile yet strong, delicate but a little rough around the edges. Lemolo is a difficult band to categorize, which is a good thing…And they must be experienced live.” Read More
-Seattlepi.com
10.21.2011
“Doe Bay Festival was the time of bands breaking things. Lemolo caused fans to break the porch of a small yoga studio while they craned to see inside the late night, 100 person show. Fresh off their West Coast tour opening for The Head and the Heart, Lemolo joins the other opening band from that same leg, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, for a much more stable performance at the Crocodile tomorrow night, along with local favorites Grand Hallway and Kris Orlowski. Each of these artists is a powerhouse in their own way…Lemolo with their charming floaty dream rock…This is a show of headliners, a relay race where the winner is whoever gets there earliest and stays till the end.” Read More
-Sound on the Sound
9.8.2011
Bumbershoot Festival Review: “Lemolo was immobilizing – time stood still. The room was so still, every sensation was electrified. Powerless to resist, we all stood there, willing to let Lemolo’s gentility to take us over.” Read More
-Seattle Show Gal
9.6.2011
Bumbershoot Festival Review: “Both Meagan Grandall and Kendra Cox take home the award for giving the most mesmerizing performance at Bumbershoot. The lovely ladies are not only gorgeous in appearance, but embody beauty, grace and class within their sound. The venue had reached capacity before Lemolo’s set had even begun…There is a power deeply rooted within the duo…Their humbleness, passion, talent and ability to support each other are what make them such incredible women and musicians.” Read More
-Redefine Magazine
8.21.2011
Doe Bay Festival Review: “It was no surprise at all to us when one of the defining moments of last weekend’s Doe Bay Festival came from one of our favorite new bands, Lemolo. We’ve been enamored with Meagan Grandall and Kendra Cox’s breathy & downtempo dream pop, but were questioning whether the young duet could corral a hyped-up crowd coming straight off of a performance from high energy hip-hopsters Champagne Champagne. Two songs into their set, it was pretty clear that the quality folks behind the festival (Artist Home Booking) had worked their magic once again. Not only had Lemolo brought the rowdy crowd back down to earth with ease, they had silenced them. Actually, you could see it on the faces of the crowd almost immediately; Lemolo OWNED them, including me.” Read More
-Radio Free Sodo
5.30.2011
“Lemolo has been getting some great hype lately (for good reason). They’re a must-see group.” Read More
-Seattlest
4.4.2011
“You have to see the electric chemistry of dream pop newcomers Lemolo live to really get it. The Poulsbo pair—Meagan Grandall and Kendra Cox—prod and push each other into intimate conversations, their stand out track “Whale Song” is a stunning example, when Grandall coos and Cox, with the recognition of a fortune teller, nods along with an oscillating keyboard line. Listen to their recent in-studio performance at KEXP, a smoldering portrait of a young band finding their voice, and just try not to get excited about watching this band blossom in your city.” Read More
-PubliCola
2.22.2011
“The energy these two produce live is a force to be reckoned with: think seamless, light-but-powerful vocals over a sometimes soothing, sometimes stabbing set of piano keyboard sounds, with separate-but-equal levels of percussion. Neither band member backs the other, neither takes center stage for more than a moment — what you witness on stage during their performance is a union, an absolute partnership of sound that’s familiar enough to be comforting while experimental enough to keep your interest.” Read More
-Three Imaginary Girls
1.24.2011
“Chances are you’re going to like Lemolo, a low-fi, electro-folk duo that is sure to seduce fans of Seattle-style indie/rock/folk, most especially those who listed Beach House’s Teen Dream among their favorite records of the year. Mercifully, Meagan Grandall and Kendra Cox put their own spin on these genres, with haunting results…What we’ve heard thus far are some of the most promising expansions on the pretty sounds that have dominated the local zeitgeist. And we’re ready to be wowed by what comes next.” Read More
-Seattle Weekly
1.14.2011
“Meagan Grandall and Kendra Cox are rapidly gaining attention from their latest release and seem to be in that magical time between obscurity and The Head and the Heart (who they’re playing with tonight) when band and new fans are so excited to discover each other’s existence. Grandall’s vocals are haunting and evoke a tinge of not sadness per se, but of longing which is not always easy to pull off.” Read More
-KEXP 90.3 FM
12.2.2010
“Meagan Grandall and Kendra Cox’s breathy, downtempo folk project Lemolo is pretty and sleek — sort of how the way a nice silk dress feels between your fingertips…Piano, percussion and guitar serve as mere backdrop to Grandall’s moody, sumptuous lead vocals. For the most part, this is quiet-time music, but when Grandall surprises you and belts it out, the ambient, Beach-House sound gives way to a titillating pop sensibility that’s hardly fit for naptime.” Read More
-Seattle Weekly
10.14.2010
“Lemolo’s subtle songs alternately channel Chan Marshall and Ben Gibbard, a big voice vamping with the wounded zest of one who can only view life through a perpetually shattered window. Their bubbly and energetic stage demeanor stands in stark contrast to the pensive romance the duo’s music so effectively portrays.” Read More
-Sound On The Sound
10.01.2010
“Vox Meagan Grandall sings like she’s having fun doing it, the simple act feeding her soul. Grandall’s high high notes and jazzy flourishes stands out against the largely bare arrangements, beacons of true musical skill rarely witnessed in taverns and bars. This skill is an elemental contrast in the downtempo “sad-sexy” pop that seems to be their wheelhouse, a lens that brings into focus an emotionally complicated personality in songs that you realize probably wouldn’t work sung any other way. And then just when I thought it couldn’t get any more interesting, she starts running all that stuff through a looper pedal…” Read More
-Sound On The Sound
08.25.2010
“There are few local artists I’m enjoying more than Lemolo, whose Myspace player and YouTube videos have been pretty much on repeat in a never closed tab for nearly a week. When the rest of the blogosphere couldn’t get enough of Sufjan’s Bandcamp, I couldn’t bare to break myself away from Lemolo’s loveliness. A little sister to the sparse but potent blues of Cat Power’s Moon Pix and local songstress Kaylee Cole’s melodic melancholy, Lemolo’s songs leave the listener aching. And in my case, Lemolo has left me aching for more.” Read More
-Sound On The Sound
05.16.2010
“This local act will be gracing the stage with their thoughtfully arranged and gracefully performed songs about love and longing. Their music is full simple arrangements and subtle harmonies that channel Neko Case and the Cowboy Junkies. If this video is any indication they also sound pretty amazing live. They have only been around for a little over a year, but they have already released a fantastic EP, and played stages like Neumos. Get on down there and check them out!” Read More
-Seattle Show Gal
