ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP ‘ALL RIGHTS RESERVED’
AND SHARE UNAPOLOGETIC SINGLE ‘NO TE METAS’
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“A killer combo” – Notion
“Disorderly and dramatic” – Wonderland
“Dripping with glamour, excess, and liberating hedonism” – DIY
“A floor-filling wildfire of Y2K flair and personal rage” – Hard Of Hearing
Hot on the heels of their caustic single ‘Bad Lyfe’ (watch here) which turned heads at BBC Radio 6 Music, DIY, Wonderland and more, today the Stockholm-via-London duo comprising vocalist and provocateur Nathalia Aránguiz and producer Ove Jerndal announce their debut EP ‘All Rights Reserved’.
Out on the 19th September via 40 Miles, it’s an alluring, agitated mixtape that’s as party-starting as it is political, collaging The Knife-esque electronics, early-M.I.A.-style sampling, musica urbana rhythms and indie-rock agita. ‘All Rights Reserved’ epitomises Lover’s Skit’s modern punk ethos and their desire to rip up the rulebook and stick it all back together with glitter glue, blurring the line between amateurism and professionalism, underground experimentalism and escapist pop.
Today’s single “No Te Metas” provides the latest taste of the project, and hybridizes the salsa music Nathalia grew up on, with the grooves of Deee-Lite and the cheeky verve of Rosalía, making for an ultra-contemporary anthem. Watch the brilliant video directed by Mattematrix & Lover’s Skit here.
She explains, “‘No te metas conmigo’ literally translates as ‘Don’t mess with me’. I’m talking about me and my girls, and seeing my friends do drugs and being reckless and not caring about it. I feel like me and my friends have this attitude of owning the world – we’re just kids f*king around and not doing anything important, but it’s still like, we’re the best. I liked that funny paradox.”
Lover’s Skit formed when a mutual friend introduced them with the simple suggestion: “You play guitar, she sings – you should make something!” Drawing on their similarities as well as differences, Ove had cut his teeth in local hardcore bands but made little to no music himself; Nathalia, meanwhile, was brought up in a working class Stockholm neighbourhood and had never performed, also finding little she could identify with as the only kid of colour in her class. A few hangs later, and they were Lover’s Skit – fast forward a couple of years and they’ve laid waste to stages like The George Tavern, The Old Blue Last, The Great Escape and more. They’re here to start fires – and parties – in equal measure, and they’re just getting started.
