Icona Pop wrote their first new album in 10 years after they had been bored in the course of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo dropped a brand new single known as ‘I Need You’ in February and they’re getting ready to return to the charts with their first new album since 2013’s ‘This Is … Icona Pop ‘ – they usually have revealed the brand new music took place as a result of they had been caught at dwelling in Sweden in the course of the coronavirus pandemic and the “bizarre” state of affairs stirred their creativity.
Aino advised RETROPOP journal: “We’ve been touring for thus a few years and we’ve been attempting to write down music, then once we left LA and went again to Sweden earlier than the lockdown began we had been tremendous bored and we ended up in the identical studio the place we wrote our first songs.”
Caroline added: “We had been additionally scared. What was gonna occur with our profession? Would we ever be capable to stand on stage once more? Or journey? It was such a bizarre time … “
Throughout the pandemic, the ‘I Love It’ duo saved themselves and their followers entertained by internet hosting ‘rave spa’ livestreams on-line and Caroline insists their lockdown DJ periods impressed their new music.
She defined: “We’d be doing sheet masks and DJing in robes. Simply actually enjoyable issues so we had been nonetheless related with our followers, which influenced us once we began writing. We mentioned, ‘OK – let’s go in, haven’t any guidelines, and see the place we find yourself.’ And it’s fairly cool that in essentially the most quiet occasions of our lives, we wrote our clubbiest songs ever!”
