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Lucky Soul

Lucky Soul Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Pop / Soul

    Location London, Un

    Profile Views: 725363

    Last Login: 7/19/2011

    Member Since 9/19/2005

    Website luckysoul.co.uk

    Record Label www.ruffalane.com

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

  • Members

    Ali Howard (Vocals) Andrew Laidlaw (Rhythm Guitar) Ivor Sims (Lead Guitar) Paul Atkins (Drums) Russell Grooms.. (Bass) Art Terry (Keys)

  • Influences

    Motown, Dusty Springfield, Ronettes, Smiths, New Order, Kinks, Spector, Scott Walker, Sticky Fingers, There She Goes, Donovan, Blondie, Bobby D, Twisterella, Dionne Warwick, Minnie Ripperton, Lee and Nancy, Serge and Jane, Camera Obscura, el Perro del Mar, Doo Wop Do Wop, Big Hammond, Soaring Strings, Nile Rodgers

  • Sounds Like

    .....Ali Howard's voice - imagine a cross between Dusty Springfield and a Madonna who could ..really.. sing - is a vulnerable, cherishable thing devoid of all Cowell-courting artifice, but her band mates, too are able pop stylists who know their Smiths, their Tamla Motown, and their Bacharach from their Baccara...Immaculately orchestrated.****Mojo .....From the irresistible glam-pop stormer "Woah Billy!" to the Sylvia Plath goes to Nashville melancholy of "Love 3", this is the sound of a band switching from black-and-white to colour. One of the albums of the year, hands down*****Independent On Sunday .....Lucky Soul are a romantically British institution, in the same way as Saint Etienne, and A Coming Of Age is another album to cherish... .. ..****The Metro .. .... .. .....Just pure uncut delight, and we can't stop playing this... .. ..The Word .. .... .. .....[Woah Billy!] serves as a taster for their 'A Coming Of Age' album, which should, by all accounts, be a soaring pop success. Artrocker .....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! 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 .. .... .. .....Lucky Soul's new album A Coming of Age is a rush of adrenalised, chorus-blessed hits-to-be... .. ..Uncut .....[A Coming of Age] is a song to listen to on repeat...from this high quality pop troupe's new album and a v lovely blast of springtime pop... .. .. Popjustice (Song Of The Day) .. .... .. .....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.. .... .. .....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 .. .... .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .... .. ...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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  1. Lucky Soul

    Wow! That must've felt mighty surreal. RT @Partisanpr @Rumersongs: So I didn't dream it....! http://t.co/O0KBgANC http://t.co/47cugY6L

  2. Lucky Soul

    Ooh look, we've very nearly got 3000 FB Likes. Thanks for being so patient with us you wonderful lot. Magic... http://t.co/ClXJajrR

  3. Lucky Soul

    Another day, another R.I.P. The world turns, the music plays on. http://t.co/tJZEjWZf http://t.co/dTq7rrnh

  4. Lucky Soul

    Bad week for the dance floor. RIP Donna http://t.co/SoeZdWNv http://t.co/XULIrsgr

  5. Lucky Soul

    "i'm not the one" by Larry Banks is my new jam. ♫ http://t.co/BGGBx7sC

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