Echo Ladies

Echo Ladies are Matilda Bogren, Mattis Andersson and Joar Andersén. They are three school-friends who, after playing together in a few different bands, realised that they worked best on their own. In 2014, after looking for “a name that represented our sound”, they became Echo Ladies, partly inspired by the name of the drum machine from another of their favourite bands, Echo & The Bunnymen.

They don’t just look back for inspiration, however, also citing The Raveonettes, The KVB and Black Marble as helping to shape their sound, but they claim their biggest influence to be effects pedals and “the feeling of nostalgia and hope for the future, mixed with angst over defining who you are and what you will become”.

They are in good company at the moment, too, with a number of other Swedish bands from Gothenburg and Malmö all making similar noises; FEWS, Hater, Pink Milk, Makthaverskan and Wy are all achieving varying degrees of international success. “People are slowly starting to realise what Malmö has to offer,” they explain. “There is a lot of room for underground genres and that is something makes us very proud to be from here.”