Coupdekat

Katherine Reilly, known professionally as Coupdekat , is an English musician. She is best known for cofounding Loud LDN with Maisi, but has also released four EPs and has supported Piri & Tommy on their Froge.tour.

Life and career

Early life Reilly was born in Luton and studied art and photography at A-level. She was a member of several bands, including Electric Blue, and dissolved during lockdown. and after lockdown lifted, spent a year in Paris as an au pair, where she met several people who encouraged her to make music on her own. was written while still in Paris, the month after that, she released "Little Tescos", a song about Tesco Express, the only place she could go in lockdown. She then moved to London for university, and released "Lost in Translation", about dating a French boy, which began with vocal samples, and made reference to Google Translate, struggling with abbreviations, and Brexit. On 24 June 2022, she released Imaginary Girls,

She then moved back to her parents' house, and wrote her second EP, *For Entertainment Purposes Only, in July and August 2022, with the songs being produced after she met her producer in October In February 2023, she released "Superglue", an alt-pop song about a boy who kept entering and exiting her life and which addressed codependency and red flags. which used premature removal of deciduous teeth as a metaphor. She then released "It's Not You" in May, for which the vocals were recorded while trampolining on her bed, and then the EP in June, which featured "Stunt Girl". In August 2023, she played Leeds Festival as part of Climate Live. She was booked for the 2024 Great Escape Festival in Brighton, but dropped out after committing to the Bands Boycott Barclays campaign, whose participants refused to play the event while its sponsor continued to bankroll companies supplying weapons and military technologies to Israel.

Her debut album, Goodbye 2012!, is scheduled to release on August 7, 2026.

Loud LDN In May 2022, she met fellow musician Maisi for brunch after she discovered Reilly via TikTok; there, they discussed the loneliness of being a woman in the music industry and how they were often pitted against each other. called Ladies Making Noise in London for the women and non-binary musicians they knew at that time. the adding of other members caused the member list to grow to forty people, prompting them to set up an Instagram page, Loud LDN. On 4 November 2022, she supported Piri's band Piri & Tommy at Komedia on the Brighton leg of their Froge.tour. was inspired by her time in France. Her early works were inspired by Blondie, Mazzy Star, and the Slits, In a September 2023 interview with Strand magazine, she noted that her "original roots of inspiration" were Mazzy Star, Beabadoobee, the Smiths, Blur, the Cure, Happy Mondays, and the Stone Roses and that her second EP was inspired what she described as "computer rock", a "hybrid between indie rock music, and dance and D&B" prominent in New York, with "Stunt Girl" specifically inspired by the works of James Ivy. She also mentioned that her early works including "Superglue" and "Stunt Girl" had been composed on her guitar, which she would then record on her computer and annotate with drums, and that later works were started on her computer over a sample such as a drumbeat or a loop.

Reilly was partly inspired to create Loud LDN by the Nine8 Collective, "Superglue" was inspired by "The Reel in the Flickering Light" by Christy Moore and "Tinkerbell is Overrated" by Beabadoobee and PinkPantheress,

Extended plays

Demos (2020, as part of Sunseed) Track listing:

Shades of Blue (2021, as part of Electric Blue) Track listing:

Imaginary Girls (2022) Track listing: For Entertainment Purposes Only (2023) Track listing:

The World She Created / Inside Her Pocket* (2025) Track listing:

Blow Her Up and She'll Burst! (2025) Track listing:

Singles