LoveyDove
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Pop rock |
| Instruments | Piano, bass, guitar, drums, cello, upright bass, flute, clarinet, keyboards, percussion |
| Years active | 2011-present |
| Labels | LA's Fine, Records Ad Nauseam |
| Associated acts | King Missile IV |
| Website | loveydove1.bandcamp.com |
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LoveyDove is an American pop and roll band that formed in February 2011 by Philadelphia-born Azalia Snail and California native Dan West.
LoveyDove is a musical duo known for being "as visually interesting as they are sonically enjoyable" with "shimmering, tandem harmonies". The duo is Dan West, a "psych-rock virtuoso musical maestro" on Fender VI, guitars, keys and vocals, and Azalia Snail, a "lo-fi indie rock pioneer" on keys, vocals and percussion. Their sound is described as "melodic soulful pop with eloquent grooves and seductive hooks, modern bubblegum pop, psychedelic rock with a sophisticated clarity."
The Los Angeles Times has called LoveyDove "an extraordinarily perfected and intricate band of modern, underground pop" who "specialize in creamy, enigmatic confections of pastel-toned psychedelia and intricately arranged experimental pop." They also noted LoveyDove's "consistently impressive" songs, which feature drummer Jerry Buscek, as "impeccably executed, intricately arranged and featuring a dazzling range of instruments - harpsichords, woodwinds, cellos, distorted fuzz guitar ... They have reached for, and attained, a near Olympian artistic plateau." LA Weekly said, "LoveyDove ... never fail to flabbergast," describing their sound as "deliciously chewy, loaded with dynamics, color and articulate lyrics that are both acutely chosen and shrewdly applied."
Snail, who has been called "The Female Beck", "The Female Syd Barrett," the "Lo-Fi Empress", the "psych auteur", and, by the radio station WMFU, the "Queen of Lo-Fi", is an award-winning solo artist whose career spans over 20 albums and singles. She has performed with alt-rock icons including Sebadoh, Trumans Water, Low, and Stereolab, and scored films for feature films, short films, and MTV's Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing. The Miami New Times called her a "singular talent" and described her music as, "Imagine stripping off all the studio layers of (T Rex, Roxy Music, and Mott the Hoople), retaining their Oscar Wilde-ian lyrical and structural flights of fancy, and channeling it through a muse with an ethereal, dream-pop-worthy voice."
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