Just Like Alice & The Lovers Do
Valentine’s Day creeps up fast doesn’t it? I actually thought I could afford that stress free (and thought free) popular card and flower deal off the internet. My wallet also says I’m going to be £60 short of that £65 dinner for Saturday too. If there’s anything love related it will grabbing a ticket to Alice & The Lovers this Thursday, February 12th at The Dublin Castle, Camden in preparation for their EP release.
I remember sharing a bill with the all-female ensemble Alice & The Lovers at The Monarch some time last year and just being enamoured with their cool sound and slick look. We were outclassed and out-girled in every way. There was something quite new and fresh about them. It turns out lead singer/songwriter and front woman Alice Offley is accompanied by guitarist sister Amy, as well as Rio Tasia and Rosie Lefevre, completing the line-up on second guitar and drums respectively.
The EP, which is available to pre-order now (released Feb 14!) includes lead single Valentine, which oozes in understated honesty. Alice’s cool, distorted, intimate vocal performance shines in delay and reverb. Valentine is also complete with anthemic repeating poetry to get your singing chops into. All in all a worthy lead single.
Mother’s Bedroom and its slick drum groove keeps the rhythm pushing forward and is accompanied with ear-catching flourishes of great descending harmonies. There is a sense of anxiety present as Alice sings with almost trembling diction “what did you do?”
Final track Fucked Up feels like a mash up between classic 60s and a pop punk tune. It still exudes that earlier honest feel with an open-letter tone to the lyrics and melody. Overall, FU is a sure-fire live firecracker.
Show some support and get love struck by Alice & The Lovers at the ace Dublin Castle, Camden this Thursday. Doors at 7.45pm.
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