L.Stadt is one of the most interesting Eastern European rock groups around today. They‘re loved by even the snobbiest of Western critics and considered to be ambassadors of music in Poland.
The members of the band met at the Camerimage Film Festival in Strasbourg in 2003. Raised under the influence of Western music, these young men decided that you “can’t be a prophet in your own back yard”, so they started out performing beyond the borders of Poland.
The works of L.Stadt were hungrily eaten up by fussy Western music fans and critics, and the young men were compared to The White Stripes, The Strokes, Blur, and other bands which have a reserved spot in the rock Olympics. L.Stadt harmoniously fuses modern rock with old school. Their songs feature powerful electric guitar, the energetically pulsating rhythms of two drummers, and the vocals of Lukasz Lach, which seem to float straight out of scratched vinyl records of The Velvet Underground.
L.Stadt is deservingly called the forerunner of rock music in Poland and has scooped up a multitude of awards at home and abroad within a span of a few years. After releasing its debut album in 2008, the quartet was recognised as the country‘s best rock band and the band‘s hit single, Londyn, won song of the year at Poland‘s prestigious ESKA Music Awards.