Luluc

Luluc is the singing/songwriting of Zoe Randell and multi-instrumentalist Steve Hassett. Zoe’s poetic style and unique alto voice draws comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel and Nico.

Emerging from the Melbourne scene in the 2010’s, Luluc’s sparse folk-noir debut Dear Hamlyn drew many high profile international fans and tours and they signed to the legendary Sub Pop Records for their follow up 2014’s Passerby. Produced with Aaron Dessner in their adopted home of Brooklyn, NY, Passerby made various ‘year-end’ lists and was NPR's #1 album.

The 2018 release Sculptor (Sub Pop) was again broadly lauded by the international music press while they toured extensively in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK and Europe with The National and J Mascis among others.

Luluc's Dreamboat (2020) was described by The New Yorker as “crystalline and unflappable, with a strange beauty that verges on creepy—it's the kind of voice that, on a movie soundtrack, portends unspeakable doom".

Luluc's latest album Diamonds (2023) was described by All Music's Timothy Monger as ""...one of their most complete statements to date. With her distinctive low voice and unhurried pace, Randell is a master at describing the underlooked details of life, bringing to them a richness and sense of wonder. Each album in the band's catalog is a gem and Diamonds, with its dream-like tone and bouquet of lived-in stories, is perhaps their brightest."

(Luluc is pronounced Lou-Luke)

Photography by Charlotte De Mezamat