Curse of Lono documents grief, loss, nostalgia and hope in wishful new single ‘Ursula Andress’
“People in Cars” comes to life in the music video for the Curse of Lono’s soft-rock number ‘Ursula Andress’.
The album itself is named after Mike Mandel’s 2017 photo book, capturing people through the windows of cars at an LA intersection in 1970. Bechtolsheimer explains his relationship with Mandel’s work, “I love the idea that in each car there’s this whole story or a whole family’s story, but we’re all in these bubbles. It’s like the support bubbles in lockdown.”
“I pressed record and I recorded this thing that went on for 20 minutes,” he says. “All that I did afterwards was transcribe the lyrics. The night that my dad passed away, I’ve never seen anyone in so much pain. I still can’t write about that, but I could just let it flow out.”
An iconic visual with a vivid colour palette, ‘Ursula Andress’ is available for you to enjoy from this moment on.
As a final sign off to the album, Felix tells us that, “Right now I can do what I fucking like. I got a record that’s my favourite record I’ve ever made by a long way, and it’s the record I needed to make. I lost my dad, my uncle and my ex-partner last year, and my band, but I’ve got this record and I almost look at it like a bit of a shrine.”
People In Cars’ road to redemption may be dark, but its twists and turns are breathtaking.
