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Louis The Child at COCA-COLA ROXY
November 1, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Louis The Child at COCA-COLA ROXY
VENUE AND EVENT INFO
This is an all ages event.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Gen Adm standing room floor and reserved mezzanine AFTER the double lettered rows.
ARTIST INFO
For each new piece of music they create, Chicago-bred duo Louis the Child devote themselves to dreaming up rhythms and melodies and textures that transcend all expectation. While that process depends on their sophistication and skill as producers, it’s also driven by the deep sense of joy that 22-year-old Robby Hauldren and 21-year-old Freddy Kennett purposely bring to their work.
Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Louis the Child met at a Madeon concert when Hauldren was 16 and Kennett was 15. By that point, both had already been pursuing their musical passions for years: Hauldren had taken up piano, drums, and guitar and played in several bands (in addition to DJ-ing under the name Haul Pass), while Kennett had studied jazz drumming through Chicago’s Midwest Young Artists program and begun producing electronic music under the name Fatboy. With their early collaborations including experiments in genres like nu disco and moombahton, Louis the Child steadily gained a word-of-mouth following through their SoundCloud page and later earned acclaim for their remix work, including Chance The Rapper’s “All Night,” Miike Snow’s “Genghis Khan,” and Ty Dolla Sign’s “Blasé.” Following the release of “It’s Strange,” the duo drew further attention with singles like “Weekend” (a 2016 collaboration with Icona Pop), delivering Love Is Alive in early 2017.
Through the years, Louis the Child have explored everything from psychedelia to hip-hop (as on their early-2018 track “Shake Something,” a moody slow-burner featuring Savemoney collective member Joey Purp). They’ve also channeled an unbridled energy into their live performance, with recent highlights including closing out one of the biggest stages at Electric Forest and playing in Jakarta and Malaysia for the first time. “Being onstage in Jakarta and having everyone in the crowd singing along to our songs was definitely a crazy moment for us,” says Hauldren. “It just sort of drove home how global our music has become, and how many people we’re really reaching.”
As that reach continues to widen, Louis the Child have made a deliberate point of pushing themselves to evolve as musicians. “I think to grow as any kind of artist, you need to constantly open the door for new ideas, and at the same time improve your technique and ability to make those ideas come to life,” says Kennett. To that end, he names playing live instruments (drums, piano, guitar) as well as drawing and making visual art among the practices that help spark the duo’s creativity. “We’re always learning and trying new things so we can keep thinking in new ways and expand the possibilities of what we can do with our music,” Kennett says. “It’s become like a habit to us, because we don’t ever want to fall back on whatever’s worked for us in the past. There always has to be that forward movement.”
