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LLOREN drops new album ‘It’s Always Sunny in LA’

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8 months ago

August 22, 2025

Don Reed

Burgeoning alt-pop star LLOREN has released her hugely anticipated new album ‘It’s Always Sunny In LA’. The album features the final single from the record- the delectable ‘Pretty Stranger (A Love Like This)’.

With 80s inspired rhythms and blissful, cinnamon-sweet pop emotions running throughout, ‘It’s Always Sunny In LA’ conjures all the best heart string tugging movie moments, with its cinematic atmospheres combining with LLOREN’s emotion-packed infectious songwriting to maximum effect. Largely inspired by her trips to the US to work on sync & trailer music for film and TV, tracks like ‘California Daydream’ and ‘Last Star In LA’ are perfect pop epics that you’ll need to blast at full volume with the windows down!

It’s no wonder then that singles from the record have been championed by BBC Radio 2’s Angela Griffin, Radio X’s John Kennedy and prestigious music tastemakers like Louder Than War and The Line Of Best Fit. Hit BBC TV show The Traitors, Grey’s Anatomy, The L Word, 1923, Wish, The Company You Keep, Made In Chelsea, Love Island UK and Love Island USA have also fallen in love with LLOREN’s music, giving her lucrative sync credits. And if that’s not enough to get you intrigued, LLOREN’s music has also caught the attention of Mauvey, who she collaborated with on the track ‘Pillow’, and top artists Fleurie, Johannes Oerding and Michael Patrick Kelly, who LLOREN was invited to tour with.

Another album highlight is ‘Like This’, with its Telly Award winning video directed by Richard Bonisoli, which sees LLOREN on an apocalypse-inspired road trip through Los Angeles. And new single ‘Pretty Stranger (A Love Like This)’ completes the album with a joyous crystalline synth-pop celebration of love that really pops out the stereo.

“‘It’s a total cliché, but for good reason!”, says LLOREN on the single. “But Love really does hit you when you least expect it, and in my case, when I didn’t want it. But when it feels that good, it’s hard to deny, you just have to give in and let yourself be loved.”

‘It’s Always Sunny In LA’ is the culmination of all of LLOREN’s hard work and achievements to date and being loaded wall-to-wall with dazzling bangers, the record doesn’t disappoint! Whether you’re in a relationship or still currently searching for ‘the one’, the anthemic nature and sentimental feel of the album is the perfect soundtrack for your journey through love.

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Michele Ducci teases new album with uplifting indie single ‘Woman Like You’

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1 day ago

April 17, 2026

Don Reed

Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.

‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.

The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.

The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:

Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”

About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.

We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”

The album and full-length film will be released on the 5^th of June on Monotreme Records.

Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.