"the people who I meet have their future and it will change"
UK romantics Lovely Assistant are a revivalist four piece outfit from the Northeast coast of England and their first release Last of the Aircraft are Leaving, from their upcoming self-titled debut album (dropping October 2nd on Treetrunk Records), is crushingly beautiful. Their style here disarms and charms simply with no over reaching crescendos or bombastic musical flourishes and you might even say that it is overall unremarkable (in that way), but therein lies it's absolute beauty. Influences by 50's torch songs, the spartan production feeling like a jazz combo and the girl boy vocal aesthetic sung with a matter of factly hush style sounds sad in the way the young love breaking up feels. The musical break which feels like a melodic marriage of keys and similarly toned guitar and drum brushes gives way to those hushed vox turning into cries of longing and simple lives that can become so utterly complex. All of the sudden this aforementioned simple and unremarkable song simmers and then boils over into emotions tethered to your own life that might make you cry or hold on even tighter to the one you need the most.
"The idea is that the song is an elegy or a requiem for someone who's disappeared" - Lovely Assistant
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
From Lovely Assistant:
"Working out of a community centre and a vicarage on the North-east coast of England, revivalist four-piece Lovely Assistant have slow cooked a debut album over the past few years. Taking influences from the torch songs of the fifties through to J.J. Cale, Nina Simone, Arthur Russell, Prefab Sprout and Elvis Costello, Lovely Assistant will be releasing their debut single Last of the Aircraft are Leaving on 24th July 2020 and their self-titled debut album on 2nd October, both on Treetrunk Records"
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