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Lovely Assistant

by Lovely Assistant

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    Limited-run 12" on weighted vinyl.

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released September 7, 2020

Lovely Assistant

Side 1:
Her Majesty’s Blues
Gloomy Lover
Suffer in a Modern Way
Last of the Aircraft are Leaving

Side 2:
Some Press-ups for Juliet
Stutter 4pm
Love Moves in Ordinary ways
Read all the Meters
Channel Four Romance

Lovely Assistant are:
Kieran Rafferty – Bass, Vocals, Piano, Keys, Guitar
David Turnbull – Guitar, Bass and Vocals
Annie Griffiths – Vocals and Keys
Matt Hardy – Drums and Percussion

Produced and mixed by Will Thorneycroft
From demos by Kieran Rafferty and David Turnbull
Songwriting by Kieran Rafferty except ‘Suffer...’ written with G. Sacala
Arrangements by Lovely Assistant and Will Thorneycroft
Demos and drums recorded by Martin Trollope at the Custom Space with additional recording by Matt Hardy
Will Thorneycroft plays cello on ‘Aircraft’

‘Her Majesty’s Blues’ as above but in addition:
Faye MacCalman - Sax Arrangement and Performance
Emma Anderson - Drums
Michael Cook - Bass
Recorded by Martin Trollope and Will Thorneycroft. Additional piano recorded by Dario Lozano Thornton

Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering
Cover photo: Michael James

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Lovely Assistant Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Defiantly without genre Lovely Assistant explore long-distance, long-dead Americana alongside bygone bits of the New Wave. Working out of a community centre in North-east England, the revivalist 4-piece produced a debut album on limited 12” release.

Influenced by the torch-songs of the fifties through to J.J. Cale, Arthur Russell, Prefab Sprout, Little Feat, Elvis Costello and Angel Olsen.
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