The Lovers - Crik Crak

TRACKLISTING:
7”
A SIDE
CRIK CRAK
B SIDE
BASQUE COUNTRY

“PECULIAR POP SONGS WITH AN ELECTRONIC TWIST” - MOJO.
“A RECORD SO SEEDY IT WOULD MAKE SERGE GAINSBOROUGH BLUSH” - NME.
THE LOVERS ARE MILES APART FROM ANYTHING YOU ARE LIKELY TO HAVE HEARD IN MODERN POP FOR QUITE SOME TIME. TWO FRENCH MAVERICKS WHO FIND THEMSELVES MAKING MUSIC IN SHEFFIELD AND HAVING SONGS CO-WRITTEN BY JARVIS COCKER. NOT SOMETHING YOU COME ACROSS EVERY DAY.
JARVIS COCKER POINTED OUT THE OTHER WEEK, IT’S HARD TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR IN POP THESE DAYS. SO MANY FURROWED BROWS, SO LITTLE UNDERSTANDING THAT GREAT POP IS AS MUCH ABOUT MYSTERY AND MISCHIEF AS GREAT TUNES AND A KILLER WARDROBE. IN SUCH A CLIMATE THE LOVERS (FRED DE FRED AND MARION BENOIST – A FORMER BUNNY GIRL) ARE HAPPY TO BE HERETICS.  “FOR ME, MUSIC IS THE PUREST FORM OF COMMUNICATION” EXPLAINS FRED “THROUGH IT, WE CAN BECOME CLOSER TO EACH OTHER. AND IF IT’S A BIT DARK, A BIT FUNNY, AND A LITTLE BIT SEXY, SO MUCH THE BETTER!”
CRIK CRAK IS TAKEN FROM THE LOVERS SELF TITLED ALBUM AND HERALDS THE BEGINNING OF A CAMPAIGN WHICH SEES THE BAND PERFORMING AT THE LOST VEGAS STAGE IN GLASTONBURY AND GRACING THE ARENA AT THIS YEARS BIG CHILL. THE BAND HAVE ALSO BEEN SLOTTED INTO A STRING OF DATES AROUND THE UK THROUGH OUT THE SUMMER – AND EXPECT SOME OF THESE TO BE AS BIZARRE AS THEIR CHRISTMAS 06 “CONCERT” PERFORMING IN THE WINDOW OF BIRMINGHAM’S TOP SHOP.
UNASHAMEDLY ROMANTIC, THOROUGHLY MODERN, THE LOVERS  ARE WAITING FOR YOU IN THEIR BEDROOM NOW.

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