Lovac

***With their new 10 inch EP The Fish & The Fist, Swedish band LOVAC return to explore desolate places far beyond the familiar and comfortable. This album follows their 2010 debut CD Apes of a Cold God (Soleilmoon) with a new goth-tronic sound lifted aloft by ANDERS CARLSSON’s baritone and ERICA LI’s pure alto voices, and carried further with the inventive compositions and mixing of ANDREAS CATJAR and MARTIN KRALL. It’s the perfect sound for interior travels. LOVAC is part of a larger movement of modern European pop music that draws inspiration from traditional folk music and re-imagines it in a fertile and inspired clash with the contemporary minimalist industrial and electronic scene. Death In June’s Douglas P, whose songs Lovac covered in 2008 as DOWN IN JUNE calls it “Totenpop”. Analog synthesizers are layered over electric guitars and voice, supplemented by a variety of acoustic images, including military drums and Persian classical music instrument, the santoor. Limited edition of 250 copies.