Hirola comprises Bristol-based producers LTO (formerly of acclaimed electronic outfit Old Apparatus) and edapollo. Their music together is entrancing. More expressive and human than straight computer music, much more obfuscate and abstract than pop music, Hirola’s debut offering has strength enough to scale multiple peaks.
Though founded in LTO’s piano playing (he is a piano teacher in his civilian life), edapollo’s vocals and the pair’s shared production alchemy, Hirola is more than just a skill-trade, but a mutual elevation and inspiration, a new concoction very different to its base materials. “It's taken a couple years of trial and error to develop a sound that's equal parts LTO and edapollo,” Hirola write. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.