Lovers – Figure 8 (La Pump Mix)
One of our top 5 LPs from last year was ‘Dark Light’ from Lovers – an intense synth-laden collection of songs with black-humour lyrics. The band have just set off on a tour of pretty much all of the United States, and have celebrated with this excellent La Pump Remix of ‘Figure 8′, which, thanks [...]
Meme Review of the Year 2010
For us, this was the year of broken beats, disco re-edits and, of course, the cloud. We also managed a major design revamp which seems to have gone down well as our visitor numbers nearly quadrupled over the year. But we would be nothing without the music and the artists that made it… A whole [...]
Lovers Interview
We described Lovers recent album, ‘Dark Light’, as a stark and intense record of pared-down emotion. Which kinda meant we liked it…a lot. The lyrics are exposing and personal enough, but we wanted to know more. So, in the Meme style of brief, handful-of-question interviews, we asked them a few searching questions… Meme Magazine: What [...]
Lovers – Dark Light (Badland)
Sometimes simplicity is the best policy – this LP from Oregon’s Lovers is an exercise in understated brilliance, a stark and intense record of pared-down emotion. Consisting of 3 people, (Carolyn Berk on vocals, Kerby Ferris on synth-programming and Emily Kingan on percussion), the band’s songs are messages of lost and found (female) love delivered with a great [...]
