Garlen Lo shares latest single ‘Brown Paper Ball’

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20 Mar

Fifth single from London artist, Garlen Lo. It’s a song about writing a love letter… and scrunching it up. We've all been there. Loving someone but unsure whether they love you back... and too scared to ask. It's got an art-pop feel: odd song structure, funny sound effects, theatrical vocal, and melodramatic theme.

BIO

Quirky indie-popster from London. Likes singalongs and wordplay. AKA Hong Kong Cockney*

Garlen Lo is a born-and-bred Londoner of Hong Kong-Chinese origin. Aged 8 he was raised by a wine-guzzling auntie who played country music at max volume. One Christmas, he got a guitar and took naturally to writing drunken singalongs with twee wordplay.

He formed an unruly, skinny-jeaned indie band in the mid-2000s, but after that imploded, tried to become a respectable member of society. Not quite succeeding at that either, he resumed his love for songwriting during the pandemic. The result is this! And he is super chuffed that his first four singles have all been someone’s ‘track of the week’.

He is a one-man band: playing all the instruments, singing, producing, and making the music videos. He'd like to give gigging a go again but can't face the stress of forming a band. He is open to collabs, as the kids say.

Songs about unrequited/nostalgic love seems to be his thing. Just because. His Mastermind subject would be The Beatles and Chelsea FC.

*For a short time, he went by the artist name Hong Kong Cockney but lacked the confidence to see it through. He likes it as a nickname though, like Springsteen's The Boss.