Alice Phoebe Lou
Alice Matthew (aka Alice Phoebe Lou) is a South African singer/songwriter with a distinctive voice and a style that combines ethereal bedroom pop with elements of folk, synth pop, jazz, and blues. Emerging in 2014, Lou has issued a handful of EPs and four full-length efforts (Orbit (2016), Paper Castles (2019), Glow (2021), and Child's Play (2021). "She," a track she contributed to the 2017 documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, was included on the Oscars' shortlist for Best Original Song.
The daughter of a pair of documentary filmmakers, Lou was born and raised in the small Cape Peninsula town of Kommetjie. A multi-instrumentalist by the age of fourteen, she spent her formative years as a street musician in Europe, honing her skills for passerby in Berlin, where she would eventually move. Lou self-released her debut EP, Momentum, independently in 2014. Two years later, she issued her first long-player, Orbit, which earned accolades in the German press and elicited praise back home in South Africa. The following year saw the release of the EP Sola, as well as the appearance of the one-off single "She," which was used in the acclaimed documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Paper Castles arrived in 2019 and yielded the sumptuous hit single "Something Holy," followed by an extensive bout of international touring. Like most musicians at the time, Lou spent 2020 in occupational stasis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but her creative spark never dimmed, due in large part to having fallen in love and subsequently having her heart broken. She chronicled those tumultuous times on 2021's aptly named and transcendent Glow and its surprise late-year follow-up Child's Play.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Child's Play
Alternative & Indie - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Dec 2, 2021
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Glow
Alternative & Indie - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Mar 19, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Open My Door
Alternative & Indie - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Apr 28, 2023
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A Place Of My Own (Mahogany Sessions)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Mahogany Sessions on Jul 12, 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Something Holy
Rock - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Nov 30, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Lose My Head
Alternative & Indie - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Jun 2, 2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Skin Crawl
Alternative & Indie - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Jan 15, 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ocean (Mahogany Sessions)
Pop - Released by Mahogany Sessions on Mar 30, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Dirty Mouth
Alternative & Indie - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Feb 19, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Paper Castles
Blues - Released by Alice Phoebe Lou on Mar 8, 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo