page_title: Truth Serum (EP)
section_title: Live performances
hierarchical_section_title: Truth Serum (EP) / Promotion / Live performances
caption_attribution_description: English: Tove Lo performing at the Tavastia-club in Helsinki.Suomi: Tove Lo esiintymässä Tavastialla Helsingissä.
context_page_description: Truth Serum is the debut extended play (EP) by Swedish recording artist Tove Lo. The singer signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music in 2011, which led her to write songs for artists like Girls Aloud and Icona Pop. Around that time, she was going through a hard situation in a relationship, so she eventually started composing tracks related to that matter. She then decided to keep those tracks for herself as she considered them too personal. Lo independently released two of the songs as singles, "Love Ballad" in October 2012, and "Habits" in March 2013. Their popularity gained the singer a record deal with Universal Records in 2013. The EP was eventually released through the label to digital retailers on 3 March 2014.
  Truth Serum has been described as a pop, electropop and indie pop record. According to Lo, the tracks talk about her most intense love affair, from the happy beginning of the relationship to the part when she is trying to move on after the break up. The EP received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who commended the production and the lyrics of the songs.
context_section_description: Lo held a concert at the Norwegian festival by:Larm on 27 February 2014. The following month, she performed a number of tracks at the American South by Southwest festival. On 22 March 2014, the artist sang "Not on Drugs" and "Out of Mind" at Swedish TV show Nyhetsmorgon. Three days later, she held a concert at Tavastia Club in Helsinki, Finland. On 22 April 2014, Lo performed the songs from Truth Serum alongside her collaboration with Lucas Nord, "Run On Love", at live music venue Echoplex in Los Angeles. She performed the same set list for her first show in the United Kingdom at Notting Hill Arts Club on 2 April 2014. For the performance, she was accompanied by two drummers. A reviewer from Discopop stated that he was "blown away" and that it was "so refreshing to be at a pop show that engages the heart as well as the senses". Echoing this thought, Michael Cragg of The Guardian rated the show with four stars out of five and deemed it as "a punchy UK debut".
  On 6 May 2014, Lo performed the songs from the EP and "Run On Love" at her Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen show on 6 May 2014. Two days later, the singer held a concert at The Great Escape Festival in the United Kingdom. On 18 June, Lo made her first appearance on American television when she sang "Habits (Stay High)" on Late Night with Seth Meyers. A month later, she performed "Habits (Stay High)", "Out Of Mind", "Not On Drugs" and "Over" on American music television show JBTV. On 16 July 2014, Lo sang "Habits (Stay High)" and "Not on Drugs" on KROQ-FM radio station. On 1 October, the singer performed the tracks from Truth Serum at Webster Hall in Manhattan, New York City. The songs from the EP were included on the set list of Lo's first tour, the Queen of the Clouds Tour (2015).
caption: Tove Lo performing at the Tavastia Club in Helsinki in 2014.
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