Artist : The Lovers
Album : The Lovers
Label : Gut Records
Genre : Electronic
Bitrate : 162 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:19:30 (23.9MB)
Rls date : 2007-04-25
Store date : 2007-05-21
[Track List]
1. Crik Crak (Radio Edit) 2:49
2. La Degustation 3:45
3. Sex Club 3:58
4. Basque Country 5:23
5. French Kiss 3:35
The Lovers are a French electronica/pop band based in
Sheffield, England, consisting of real-life lovers Fred de
Fred and Marion Benoist. Their music is usually upbeat,
satirising French stereotypes, with special fondness for
songs about food and sex.
The couple started working on music after a chance meeting
with Jarvis Cocker, who wrote them the songs 'La
Degustation', 'Fred de Fred' and 'Basque Country'. These
songs feature on their self-titled debut album (which had
a working title of 'Allo Allo', after the BBC sitcom of
the same name), which was co-produced by Dean Honer and
Parrot of All Seeing I, Kevin Bacon, Jon Quarmby, Leigh
Devlin and Robin Downe.
The Lovers have collaborated in the past with Kings Have
Long Arms frontman Adrian Flanagan, Hiem, and also form
part of I Monster's live show.
In previous work, Fred worked for Sheffield studio FON,
and has collaborated with acts such as Sweet Exorcist and
Nightmares on Wax. Marion is a former bunny girl, who has
worked with producers such as Nellee Hooper, and wrote the
song 'Wonderland', which took Moloko's R≤isφn Murphy to
number two in the dance charts.
The band currently have one of their songs, 'La Le', on TV
advert for McDonalds, and have a special edition of their
album forthcoming, with a remix disc from the likes of
Hiem, Kings Have Long Arms, Ross Orton of Fat Truckers,
Robin Taylor-Firth of Nightmares on Wax, Richard H. Kirk
of Sweet Exorcist and Cabaret Voltaire, and others.
The band are not to be confused with Tom Hingley's Lovers,
a band formed by the former frontman of Inspiral Carpets