Love Echo is a post-chillwave project consisting of producer Vic Miranda and singer Vicki Glass. So far they only have a few tracks up on their Soundcloud page, but we’re hoping for a proper release some time soon. Listen to their beautiful cover of The Cure‘s “Lovecats,” below.
Ainda no rescaldo do concerto épico de 3 horas dos The Cure no Optimus Alive, apresentamos os Love Echo e a sua mais recente interpretação do clássico de 1983 “The Lovecats”, da banda britânica.
A dupla formada pelo produtor português Vic Miranda e a vocalista Vicki Glass, é dona de uma sonoridade vaporosa, fresca e repleta de luz. Inspirada noutras revelações post-chillwave como Slow Magic, Sun Glitters ou Clams Casino, a produção de Vic evoca fragmentos de memórias perdidas, num rendilhado de ruídos crocantes e teclados melancólicos que abraçam com suavidade orgânica a voz aveludada de Vicki. O resultado embala-nos num sussurro entre o sonho e a realidade com um sorriso palerma estampado na cara.
“The Lovecats” está disponível no bandcamp dos artistas por €1.
Pedro Lima
Love Echo are a duo consisting of Vic Miranda and Vicki Glass – and they’ve just released a new cover of The Cure’s ‘The Love Cats’! Vic provides the dreamy sounds and production and Vicki provides the equally dreamy vocals. The band list the title as just one word – ‘Lovecats’ and it’s only the second song/ single that the duo has released, following ‘We’ which came out in May.
The Cure released ‘The Love Cats’ as a single in 1983 – it became their first top ten single it the U.K. – and it later appeared on their compilation of early singles and b-sides called ‘Japanese Whispers’. While the lyrics are completely intact on Love Echo’s version – they’re delivered in a much more sultry fashion – and the music has an altogether different feel.
There’s no jazzy bits or any of Robert Smith’s ‘bah bat da buh’s – just the hypnotic piano over a slow beat with some additional atmospheric synths. It’s quite the transformation really – it’s a lullaby now – not to be confused with The Cure song called ‘Lullaby’!
If this fine cover is to your liking it’s available for purchase on their Bandcamp page here: http://lovecho.bandcamp.com/album/lovecats and you can keep up with the duo on Facebook m’here: http://www.facebook.com/LoveEchoMusic
This is Love Echo’s cover of ‘The Love Cats’… Enjoy!
Love Echo – Lovecats (The Cure Cover)
Eigentlich bin ich ja ziemlich skeptisch was das Covern von großartigen Bands der Musikgeschichte angeht – erst recht bei The Cure. Bei diesem Lovecats-Rework des Post-Chillwave-Duos Love Echo (bestehend aus Vic Miranda und Vicki Glass) war diese anfängliche Skepsis allerdings komplett fehl am Platze und hat sich bereits nach den ersten Sekunden nach dem Betätigen des Playknopfes in riesengroße Begeisterung umgewandelt. Ich hoffe wir werden in Zukunft noch viel mehr von den beiden hören, denn ihr Lovecats Cover ist wunderschön und absolut zu Recht schon in meiner Favoritenliste.
Vic Miranda and Vicki Glass have put out a simple teaser of their newest duo project, Love Echo, and it’s chilling not just by nature, but by the great expectations they’ve fostered with their barely-there releases.
Their reprise of “Lovecats” is a song that coddles you in serenity. Let’s take away the jumpy beat, itching vocals, and the indie-rockabilly sense that The Cure created with their original song. Let’s drain it of its spunk and youth, and fill it full of warmth and twinkling vocals. A mellow stream of melody allows the tender vocals to weave in and out of the note-by-note piano tune and leaves you glistening with affection. “Lovecats” is the sound of cashmere, it’s the smell of cheesecake — all of its aspects are delicately wonderful.
Vic Miranda and Vicki Glass have put out a simple teaser of their newest duo project, Love Echo, and it’s chilling not just by nature, but by the great expectations they’ve fostered with their barely-there releases.
Their reprise of “Lovecats” is a song that coddles you in serenity. Let’s take away the jumpy beat, itching vocals, and the indie-rockabilly sense that The Cure created with their original song. Let’s drain it of its spunk and youth, and fill it full of warmth and twinkling vocals. A mellow stream of melody allows the tender vocals to weave in and out of the note-by-note piano tune and leaves you glistening with affection. “Lovecats” is the sound of cashmere, it’s the smell of cheesecake — all of its aspects are delicately wonderful.
Enjoy!
By Lori Kay
