LOVER LOVER ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM THERE IS A PLACE
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It was in Montmartre that Eleanor Bodenham began Lover Lover – a band whose gossamer Eurythmics pop harks back to better days, in much the same way as the faded glamour of Paris’s former arts district. Eleanor was working in a bakery there before moving first to London and then to the Montana desert in America. This sense of wanderlust and adventure can be heard and felt throughout her debut album, There Is A Place.
“It’s like when you learn to drive for the first time,” says Bodenham of the record, “and take an old car out on your own. You’ve got nowhere to go and nowhere to be. But it’s a hot night and the sun is going down and all the windows are open and you’re listening to something that makes your eyes melt.”
A menagerie of warm synth texture and glimmering vocal harmonies, it takes the blockbuster hooks and cheery bonhomie of a John Hughes film soundtrack and cloaks them in warm Beach House tidal sounds full of nostalgic ennui. Then of course there’s the nods to Fleetwood Mac scattered throughout: “I remember the bass line in The Chain when I was a kid, how it changed the tempo of my heart and made me feel something,” says Bodenham. “I also had a slightly out-of-control crush on Stevie Nicks as a five-year-old.”
But Lover Lover extends far beyond mere ‘Mac tribute – despite hosting similar inner-band trysts and breakups. There Is A Place was written in collaboration with former band mates Martin Craft and Nick Littlemore (Empire of the Sun), who are no longer involved for reasons that remain between the trio. “We loved each other. Or at least I loved them,” says Eleanor. Martin now lives in the same Montana desert Eleanor once rode horses across.
Inspired by Eleanor’s “rootlessness”, There Is A Place is a stirring listen perched between heartache, from the stormy husk of ‘Hush’ to the crystalline pop bombast of ‘All Through The Night’ right through to the arresting ‘Love on a Wire.’ Everyone has felt it at intervals in their lives: that gnawing suspicion that things aren’t what they used to be. With There Is A Place to console yourself with, it won’t seem so bad.
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There Is A Place tracklisting
All Through The Night
Young Free
Embers
Freebirds
Hush
Lakeshore Line
I And The City
The Fire
Love On A Wire
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