Swedish band Tiger Lou was formed in Nyköping 2001 by Rasmus Kellerman. After several EP

Extended play

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s, the first full-length album Is My Head Still On?

Is My Head Still On?

-Track listing:1. Sound Of Crickets2. Sell Out3. Oh Horatio4. Warmth5. War Between Us6. Like You Said7. Last Night They Had To Carry Me Home8. Wake 9. All In Good Time10. Lowdown-Videos:...

 was released in 2004 and was followed in 2005 with The Loyal

The Loyal

The Loyal is Tiger Lou's second album, featuring dark, melancholic and electric sounds.-Track listing:There were two "The Loyal" albums released. One was to Startracks on Oct 10, 2005. The other was to Eyeball Records on Oct 26, 2005. The difference between the albums is their 11th track...

. Rasmus Kellerman is also known as Araki

Araki

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.

On the albums Tiger Lou is a solo project with Kellerman writing lyrics and playing nearly every instrumental part himself. Live, however, he is backed up by Erik Welén, Mathias Johansson

Mathias Johansson (producer)

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 and Pontus Levahn.

According to Kellerman, the name Tiger Lou is taken from a character called Tiger Lu in Corey Yuen's

Corey Yuen

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 1993 movie Fong Sai-yuk

Fong Sai-yuk (film)

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, although he says that "no one knows where the extra O came from" on the band's official site.

Rasmus Kellerman is married to Swedish singer-songwriter Andrea Kellerman, better known as Firefox AK.

Albums

• Is My Head Still On?
  Is My Head Still On?
  -Track listing:1. Sound Of Crickets2. Sell Out3. Oh Horatio4. Warmth5. War Between Us6. Like You Said7. Last Night They Had To Carry Me Home8. Wake 9. All In Good Time10. Lowdown-Videos:...
  
  (March 2004) - Startracks
• The Loyal
  The Loyal
  The Loyal is Tiger Lou's second album, featuring dark, melancholic and electric sounds.-Track listing:There were two "The Loyal" albums released. One was to Startracks on Oct 10, 2005. The other was to Eyeball Records on Oct 26, 2005. The difference between the albums is their 11th track...
  
  (October 2005) - Startracks
• A Partial Print
  A Partial Print
  -Track Listing:#The More You Give #The Less You Have To Carry #So Demure #Trust Falls #An Atlas of Those Our Own #Odessa #Trails of Spit #Coalitions #Crushed by a Crowd #A Partial Print...
  
  (October 2008) - Startracks

EPs

• Second Time Around (2001)
• Trouble and Desire (2003)
• Last Night ... (2004)
• Gone Drifting (2008)

Singles

• Oh Horatio (2004)
• Sell Out (2004)
• The War Between Us (2004)
• The Loyal (2005)
• Nixon (2006)
• Until I'm There (2006)
• Coalitions (2008)
• Crushed By A Crowd (2008)

"December (2008)

External links

• Official website
• Videointerview, "Nixon" and "The Loyal" live

www.RasmusKellerman.com