Lovejoy: Remixes From …And It’s Love!
(Spinout Nuggets)
7″ / Digital
Out Now
Lovejoy have taken a couple of tracks from the 2024 celebrated …And It’s Love! and released them digitally and as a limited 7″
Releases from the Spinout Nuggets label continue to come fast and furious, with this limited physical release (also available to download. Following on from the recent single, Let There Be Love, come one remix, and one alternative mix of a tracks from the recent album. This single makes a perfect accompaniment to the album but also stands on its own feet as a joyful and upbeat indie-dance floor filler.
First up, we have the Modduo Remix of ‘Nothing Stays The Same’. Modduo are the legends Nasser Bouzida (Big Boss Man, The Bongolian, etc) and Lee Grimshaw (the Spinout Nuggets head honcho), who tucked themselves away at Beat Mountain Studio, Newbury, tweaking, squeaking, leaking, giving the track even more Balearic-ness. With additional bongos and Moog by Nasser Bouzida, and percussion by Lee Grimshaw. (Grimshaw is making a bit of a name for himself after also being invited to add ‘live’ percussion to Jetstream Pony’s session recorded for Riley and Coe at 6 Music!) The more I listen to it the more it gives me late 90’s A Certain Ratio vibes…
Secondly, we have the Bent Fabric Mix of the title track, ‘…And It’s Love!’, re-mixed by Julian Tardo and Richard Preece at Church Road Studio, Hove. It really takes the track somewhere else creating a pulsing and shimmering piece perfect to soundtrack the warm summer nights.
Lovejoy will be making a rare live appearance, appearing with The Perfect English Weather at The Folklore Rooms in Brighton on Wednesday 30th July. Tickets available here
You can find more Lovejoy via their LinkTree
All words by Iain Key. See his author profile here or find him on Bluesky
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