Why Everything Is Made Of Fives (I AM LONO)
Nottingham's Electronic pop punk synth duo, I AM LONO, is back with a brand new single called Why Everything Is Made Of Fives. Vocalist Matthew Cooper explains the track: 
This song was one of the first things Lono wrote together. It was before we really knew how the band was about and how it was going to be put together, we had an acoustic guitar, and were looking for a female vocalist who could sing like Grace Slick.  Strange times indeed.  David was interested in John Carpenter soundtracks and I was still listening heavily to The Pixies, somehow those ended up being a prototype manifesto for Lono: to try to make something that is atmospheric while at the same time is immediate and direct.

The lyrics of the song come from a long night out in Nottingham, we kept finding ourselves in heated debates with strangers about the Illuminati! Trilogy; conversations that were littered with talk of secret societies, ancient orders, and how maybe the Pope controls the world and is a lizard from the moon etc.  People kept telling us about the 'Law of Fives': an all encompassing and usefully vague law which states that "all things happen in fives, or are divisible by, or are multiples of five, or are directly or indirectly appropriate to five." and that "The law of fives is never wrong". Absolutely perfect nonsense.

I didn't understand what we were talking about that night, and I don't think its any clearer now.  I think numerology and superstition are absurd but that it is also a glorious thing that people are so eager to explain how everything is connected, and to find hidden meaning in all things. Long live conspiracy theories.
This is the first track to be taken from their anticipated self-titled six track EP out on August 22nd on limited edition 10″ vinyl through Louder City Records. Matthew Cooper and David Startin draw influences from John Carpenter, The Doors, David Bowie, Suicide, Kraftwerk, Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson and David Lynch. Check out the song below and you can download it for free via the player!