The Guardian presented Leon of Athens to the British audience by including the young artist who “makes brainy MGMT-style pop” in a list of new, promising bands, featured in the music section of the newspaper.
More specifically, The Guardian said about the Greek songwriter: “Timoleon Veremis is a Greek musicology and philosophy student turned singer/guitarist now living in London who writes electronic pop songs inflected with folk and other flavours, about everything from love and death to the recent upheavals in his home country.”
“This isn’t protest music. This isn’t the Clash,” Leon himself notes.

Maybe you should just file under “brainy”. There are lyrical nods to Plato and Homer, tunes inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci movies and allusions to Steve Reich and Philip Glass. But don’t be alarmed: there are pop melodies on Global, his band Leon of Athens’s debut album – produced by Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian) – that should appeal to fans of MGMT and Metronomy.

If you are interested in discovering his music, Leon of Athens will perform in a concert held on June 20 at the entrance courtyard of the Museum of Acropolis

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