Solitude & I: ‘an in-your-face electronic manifesto’. We’re releasing our new single, ‘Solitude & I’ on Friday October 23. It’s got drum and bass rhythms, prime Depeche Mode-style synths and fantastic vocals. It’s a song that we’re very proud of and we hope you like it too. We wrote ‘Solitude & I’ when we were…
Without you, there would be no Us!
‘We miss playing music for you and we’d really like to sing along with you as we do at our concerts.’ So, here’s our idea: you play our track Voyager with your headphones on and sing along while videoing yourself on your phone. We´ll compile a (virtual) live video version of Voyager and you can…
Us live in Germany
Us we will be supporting Diary of Dreams for three shows in October! ‘We’re really looking forward to meeting the German crowd and we hope we will not let them down!’, says Andrew Montgomery. Tour dates:10.10.2019 Siegburg, Kubana Live Club11.10.2019 Erfurt, HsD Gewerkschaftshaus12.10.2019 Braunschweig, Lokpark Diary of Dreams live in Moscow in 2016.
First Contact – out May 17!
On May 17, the Stockholm-based duo release their long-awaited debut album ‘First Contact‘, 11 filmic electronic pop songs that most certainly will appeal to fans of Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Muse and Jean-Michel Jarre. Us: Leo Josefsson and Andrew Montgomery. Photo: Mehdi Bagherzadeh ‘First Contact’ features underground hits ‘Mute’ and ‘Voyager’, as well as tracks that are soon-to-be-essential listening,…
To the End of the World (remixes)
’To the End of the World’, the new album by Stockholm electronic duo Us, features 11 remixes of the band’s first singles by various producers and artists from around the globe. On the album’s lead track, Us are joined by Ben Ellis, bass player for Iggy Pop and Marc Almond (and formerly of Catherine Wheel…
Us live in 360
Us performing ‘The Stars That Arc Across the Sky’ and ‘Till the Dying of the Light’ live in 360 from the studio in Stockholm.
‘The Stars That Arc Across The Sky’ is out!
The new single ‘The Stars That Arc Across the Sky’ is out! ’The Stars that Arc Across the Sky’ is a stunning, luminous uptempo torch song, and is the most poignant but uplifting example of their music to date, with a four-to-the-floor heartbreaker that blazes over the airwaves like a beautiful comet. Here, ex-Geneva…
Sunday Post writes about Us and Geneva embarking Scotland
Now based in Sweden, next weekend sees Andrew returning home to play two shows in Glasgow – one looking to the past and one to the future. On Friday September 14, he’ll take to the stage alongside Leo Josefsson as part of electronic duo Us. And the next day he’ll be dusting down some old…
‘My Heart’s Desire’ – the new single out today!
My Heart’s Desire – the eerie electronic soundtrack to your wildest dreams and deepest fears The fourth single from Us, ’My Heart’s Desire’, is like a dark, stately outtake from the soundtrack to a late-period Kubrick film. It sounds like Massive Attack and Muse backing a choir of fallen angels. Here, ex-Geneva singer Andrew and…
‘Voyager’ – the new single from Us
‘Voyager’, the third single from Us, is the Scottish-Swedish electronic pop duo’s most widescreen film soundtrack moment yet, pairing Leo Josefsson’s urgent synth arpeggios with Andrew Montgomery’s soaring three-octave vocals, taking the listener on a space odyssey to the end of the world. Here, ex-Geneva singer Andrew and Lowe frontman Leo take inspiration from Jean-Michel…
Us live from the studio
Us live from the studio via facebook live Andrew and Leo have talked about opening up the studio and performing live via facebook since they started Us in 2015. The 29th of January they finally did it, and fans from all over the world could see them perform three new songs (Mute, Voyager & Never Get Over).
Mute, the new single from Us, transforms the Stakka Bo (aka Johan Renck) 90s indie hit into an electronic anthem
Us are the Scottish-Swedish duo of ex-Geneva singer Andrew Montgomery and Lowe frontman Leo Josefsson, whose dark and beautiful electronic pop provides an epic sound world to lose yourself in. With a unique voice that’s equal parts choirboy and soul boy, Montgomery made waves in the Britpop era with Geneva, scoring four emotive Top 40…