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Limited Edition Blood Red Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Beautiful flo blood-red cassette tape and matching flo blood-red jewel case with original artwork inlay design by Brian Doherty. Includes download code to the entire EP and personal hand written message. Dubbed in my bedroom with love. Only 10 copies available.
Original artwork poster prints by Brian Doherty on sale at live shows.
Includes unlimited streaming of Beautiful Blood EP
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Released in the summer of 2015, Beautiful Blood was received with great critical acclaim with many of the most influential publications calling it a unique and exciting piece of work from the South Londoner.
A singer/songwriter and producer, FRAN LOBO's dark, powerfully soulful vocals are accompanied by the hypnotic sounds of a vintage keytar, eerie electric guitars, deep beats, haunting choral harmonies and synth hooks. With influences ranging from Peter Gabriel, The Pixies, 90’s two-step, garage and house and Billie Holiday, her arresting and moving songs about the darker side of love stay with you long after your first listen.
"New EP 'Beautiful Blood' is a delicious document of talent emerging, with the South London singer placing her voice to the fore. At times coy, at others direct, it's a wonderful introduction to a vocalist who is able to twist R&B tropes to her command."
(Clash Magazine)
"Fran Lobo’s voice shines through on “Is This Love”. Clear, controlled, unfaltering, it’s hard to focus on anything but her vocals. Twinkling keys open into a growl of bass and Lobo comes in powerful yet understated before she runs up and down scales effortlessly. While harmonies evoke that ever-present ‘haunting’ quality, the bassline sets “Is This Love” apart from the norm. The rest of Lobo’s forthcoming EP Beautiful Blood is much the same, cinematic without being dramatic, retaining an edge of attitude."
(Wonderland Magazine)
"London-based Fran Lobo has a beautiful, intoxicating soul-filled voice. It has an intriguing smoothness that feels dark and confident. She’s someone you don’t want to mess with. “Back Again” features sounds from a vintage keytar paired with simple beats and haunting vocals."
(Stereogum)
"Threateningly blunt acoustic percussion drives Lobo’s fearless vocals onward, conjuring an ominous soundscape that wholly captures the unnerving yet strangely euphoric phenomenon of uncertain affection."
(Noisey)
"A heady mix of The Eurythmics, Amy Winehouse and Brandy"
(NME Magazine)
"Wow! Great sound."
(Huw Stephens, Radio 1)
credits
released July 6, 2015
All songs written by Fran Lobo
Back Again written by Fran Lobo and Conway Ellis
Is This Love produced by Pascal Bideau and Fran Lobo
Engineered by Steve Weston and Pascal Bideau
Back Again and You and I produced and engineered by Conway Ellis and Fran Lobo at Field Road Studio
The veteran Oakland jazz artist presents her first full-length album made in partnership with members of Citizens Jazz. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 9, 2021