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Lucky Soul - A Coming Of Age (2010)
The first taster from the new album comes in the form of ”White Russian Doll”. It’s a slice of Motown-influenced soul for the younger generation, managing to sound both retro and current. The band will preview the album for the first time with a live show at London’s Monarch on Tuesday Dec 1st.
Tracklist:
01 Woah Billy! 3:29
02 White Russian Doll 2:25
03 Up In Flames 2:56
04 Love 3 2:10
05 Upon Hilly Fields 3:53
06 A Coming Of Age 3:01
07 Warm Water 3:32
08 Aint Nothin' Like A Shame 3:08
09 That's When Trouble Begins 2:41
10 Southern Melancholy 2:37
11 Our Heart 2:50
12 Could It Be I Don't Belong Anywhere 3:27
…Subtle and clever… We often like our pop music with a high-gloss veneer to smooth over the dark underpinnings, and [White Russian Doll] certainly fits the bill …
Pitchfork.com Track Review 23.11.09
…We’ve already had a taster of Lucky Soul’s second album in the stunning shape of “Woah Billy”, A bewitching brew of T Rex, Dusty and Blondie…it’s one of those songs that forces you to go back to the start and listen again the first time you play it, and once you’ve done that, it’s inside your head and inside your world all day long…
Independent on Sunday, August 2009
…More like “Woah, Lucky Soul!” Since shimmying and shaking their way to one of the best indie pop albums of 2007, http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10248-the-great-unwanted, these English guitar romantics must’ve been hitting the gym. Sweating to the 1970s, no doubt: Woah Billy!, the first offering from the band’s upcoming sophomore effort, adds glam muscle and disco glamor to The Great Unwanted’s already-keen sense of girl-group melodrama. Why shimmy when you can strut? Woah Billy! has the confident song craft, teenager-sized emotion, and overall pop immediacy that made them such a fun, likable band from the start. Keep the dark times coming, please, woah or whoa, whoa oh oh…
Pitchfork.com Track Review 31.03.09
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The last time I heard any kind of news about Lucky Soul’s follow-up to their 2007 debut, The Great Unwanted, was back in March of last year. The band released a downloadable MP3 for the first single “Woah Billy!” to coincide with the news of the upcoming record, so I figured we would probably see something before the year ended. Fast-forward to today and we’re still waiting for A Coming of Age to grace us with it’s presence. Thankfully, that day is quickly approaching as we can expect the Ruffa Lane release to be out sometime in March.
To make the wait a little easier, a new video has surfaced for a track called “White Russian Doll” and from the looks of it, seems to borrow a similar “on the fly” filming approach that Camera Obscura’s great “French Navy” video showcased so effortlessly. So far, it looks like Lucky Soul is well on their way to avoiding the sophomore slump, as everything I’ve heard so far has been excellent.
You can order the new single from iTunes.
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...Exquisitely understated songs about heartache, loneliness and smalltown despair...as if Petula Clark had been touched by Phil Spector's production alchemy...
The Guardian
May 2007
...Lucky Soul are a band to fall in love with...This is heartache you can sway to...
Independent on Sunday
May 2007
...A glorious collection of pop symphonies...it's hard not to be won over...
**** Uncut
May 2007
...Freeway pop at its most brilliant and shameless...this pitch perfect record deserves to be on the stereo all summer...
***** Album Of The Week, Metro
April 2007
...The Great Unwanted is an immediate classic...melancholia, heartache and existential angst. Marvellous...
***** Independent on Sunday
April 2007
...Crucially well crafted and fabulously danceable, with epic flourishes and rousing handclaps...This isn't a modish crush, but a full-blown pop affair...
The Word
April 2007
...Understatement isn't in their remit, but what a glorious, over-romanticised racket they make...
**** The Guardian
April 2007
...Ice cream sweet, but, like Saint Etienne or The Concretes, they lace it with ground shards of bleak heartbreak and sharp lyrics that'll have your heart bleeding...
NME
April 2007
...Prepare to delight in this bubblegum world...with their infectious songs Lucky Soul are impossible to dislike...
The Observer
April 2007
...Lucky Soul purvey purist pop not dissimilar to Belle and Sebastian. Their debut album [is] something of a 'best of'...
**** The Times
April 2007
...Glorious confections of classic Spector-esque pop. Almost indecently fabulous...
Guardian Guide Single of the Week
March 2006
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Band Members
Ali Howard (Vocals)
Andrew Laidlaw (Rhythm Guitar)
Ivor Sims (Lead Guitar)
Paul Atkins (Drums)
Russell Grooms (Bass)
Art Terry (Keys)
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