They hail from Iceland, but after the huge American success of their single Way Down We Go in 2016, Kaleo settled down in Austin. Five young men who grew up near Reykjavík on a diet of American blues and rhythm & blues. They know how to connect this to catchy pop that not only does well in charts, but also as a soundtrack for sultry series like The Vampire Diaries and Lucifer. Kaleo is primarily
… singer, guitarist and songwriter JJ Julius Son who is also the only one pictured in the CD booklet of the second album Surface Sounds. He sings voluminously, youthfully raw and with the urgency of a cantor in a gospel church. The bombastic and stylistic white blues pop on Surface Sounds has something innocent about it, but it doesn't make it sound any less catchy. (MR)more
