Lovvers
Think

A Norman Records recommendation (10th October 2008)

This record left our brian feeling ecstatic.

Former SOTW champs Lovvers are back with their first release for big fat Wichita. Nice to hear this Notts based 4 piece still sound like their recording studio is in Oscar the Grouch's armpit. 'Think' has 7 tracks of trashed scuzz punk full of odd little hooks that's starting to infect me like a very pleasant viral disease. The guitarist Henry veers between wibbling surfy sketches to full on scratchy off kilter riffage and mad little discordant slivers thrown off with gleeful abandon. Shaun the singer sounds like he's screeching through a broken toddlers megaphone, the frantic, primal drums are just amazing, he's so tight he has to loosen all the bolts metaphorically which causes the songs to sometimes sound as if they're about to fall to bits but listen closely, he's a really volatile & interesting powerhouse under the abrasive fuzz, a real punk sticksman. He's called Stephen and is a superb human being, as they all are including the reserved Michael on bass who holds the whole wonky show together with some pummeling elastic bass strides. True UK gutter rock with huge nods to The Germs, The Wipers & Flipper but fresh as fuck. It's a 12"-er is this but the band say you're allowed to buy the CD if you really want but it doesn't look as good. Went to see them last night and they blew my mind a bit and made me feel 18 again which is a bonus. Catch them on tour and check their myspazz at http://www.myspace.com/letscommunicate

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TRACK LISTING FOR BONUS cd

B'WICH'D: A WICHITA RECORDINGS COMPILATION

01. Those Dancing Days - Home Sweet Home (Rough Mix)
- An early mix track from the forthcoming debut album
02. Lovvers - Human Hair
- Taken from the forthcoming Think EP
03. Sky Larkin - Antibodies (Demo)
- Demo of a song taken from their forthcoming album
04. Los Campesinos - How I taught myself to scream
- previously unreleased song from the "Hold on now youngster..." Session
05. The Bronx - Knifeman
- Taken from the forthcoming album 'The Bronx'
06. Les Sav Fav - Meet me in the dollar bin
- taken from the album "Inches"
07. Conor Oberst - I dont want to die (in a hospital)
- taken from the album " Conor Oberst"
08. Peter Moren - tell Me in time
- taken from the album "The last tycoon"
09. Greg Weeks - Burn the margins
- taken from the forthcoming album "The hive"
10. Euros Childs
- Saving up to get married - taken from the album "cheers gone"
11. Meg Baird - maiden in the moor lay - taken from the album "dear  
companion"
12. the Dodos - paint the rust
- taken from the album "Visiter"
13. Peter, Bjorn and John - Island Empire
- taken from the album "Seaside Rock"
14. Simian Mobile Disco - I got this down (Invisible conga people remix)
- taken from the album, "Sample and Hold: Attack Decay Sustain Release  
Remixed"
15. Her Space Holiday - This year in review"
- taken from the forth coming album, "The New Kid Revival"

TRACKLISTING: (1) Human Hair (2) No Romantics (3) The Kids (Laugh Out Loud) (4) Teenage shutdown (5) No Fun (6) Wasted youth (7) Talk Cheap
LP is special packaged and plays at 45rpm (strictly limited to 500 copies)

OVERVIEW: Great bands do not gain popularity, develop musically or give you what you want; based nowhere and residing pretty much everywhere Lovvers is compromised of four ambitious nobodies; that have tellingly appeared at a moment in musical history that can only described as a yawning deluded mess.
Two years in and having trawled the UK time and time again, playing nearly 200 shows and sharing multiple gigs with bands like Butthole Surfers, No Age, Times New Viking, Jay Reatard, Awesome Color, Mika Miko, Fucked Up, Black Lips, Brutal Knights……..
Lovvers are a strange mix of music’s forgotten / blank generation, re-calling the spirit of Darby Crashes' Germs, the weirdness of Flipper, Wipers style pop and the careless attitude of The Replacements; at one show a girl was so confused / annoyed that she wrote to KERRANG! describing this music as highly offensive, wanting to erase them from her mind.
Having been written about or featured in most major magazines, it appears the select few have largely missed the point of Lovvers.
Maybe it’s because they have no idea of their context or the idea of this music isn’t anything they’ve experience directly? Instead they continue to focus on the bands stunning good looks and hair colour, for this select group of writers music has to be defined to a style or pigeonholed with a brand.
After the release of four noisy and highly questionable 7inchs the band are now pursuing a career with the shady folk at Wichita Recordings.
Lovvers debut release with Wichita comes in the form of a 7 song CD/LP entitled THINK. it gives you the perfect amount of time you need to p*ss off your boss, quit your job and throw out those shi*ty records you keep getting told to buy.
Sounds appealing yeah?

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