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They share influences too, running the gamut from Dead Kennedys to The Prodigy, as well as fel-low Swedes like revered post-hardcore outfit Breach and doom metallers Switchblade. Now, we could just put all of that away and follow our instincts.” The division of labour is equal across the board de Blanche handles vocals, bass and the band’s art direction, with Evdokimov on guitar, synths, drum machines and production duties. There had always been weird, genre-bending stuff we’d wanted to try out in previous bands, but we couldn’t get whoever we’d been working with to go with it. “We realised that, together, we could pursue them. “We came up with a lot of ideas we wanted to develop,” explains de Blanche, whose previous bands had seen her turn her hand to everything from post-rock to hip hop. If the results - which soundtracked Kalle Altin’s short Dom - suggested a deeper bond, then their first EP, released months later, confirmed it: the four tracks on Crystal Memoriz combined stuttering beats with brooding synths to create an imposing atmosphere. Their ensuing conversations suggested that they were each looking for a way to move on from their individual pasts as musicians, and they were quickly commissioned to work on a film score. The band were formed in 2017, after a chance encounter although familiar with each other, mov-ing in similar circles in Stockholm’s underground art world, it wasn’t until de Blanche bumped into Evdokimov on her way to collect supplies for her latest sculptural work that they got talking. Neither of GHLOW’s members, though, have ever been involved in anything quite like Slash and Burn, a thrilling clash of punk and electronica that fizzes with a furious energy. One of those, Scang, would eventually see him playing stadi-ums. Both have colourful musical backgrounds stretching back decades de Blanche is a former child prodigy violinist who took up the instrument at the age of two, while Evdokimov, a Russian native, formed his first, politically-charged bands in the early nineties, against the back-drop of the fall of the Soviet Union. Both are multidisciplinary creatives de Blanche works primarily in sculpture, whilst Evdokimov is a tattoo artist. For Emille de Blanche and Nikolay Evdokimov, their first album as GHLOW represents a rebirth.