Album Cover for LOVECITY – photo by Edouard Richard

‘She loves violence!’ shrieks Rebecca Baby on ‘national honey’, the first song off their new album LOVECITY. This is Lulu Van Trapp’s second album, just three years after their first: I’m Not Here To Save The World. Ahead of the release of their new record, the band dropped the music video for ‘l’amour et la bagarre.’ And if that music video showed us anything: she does love violence! There are a lot of recurring themes on LOVECITY. Love, being one of them – duh. The pain, excitement and inevitable boredom that comes along with it too. It is also an ode to the city of Paris, the capital they grew up in. In ‘geisha’, a personal favorite of mine, she sings ‘Et si j’avais le choix / Est-ce que j’voudrais être moi?’ which translates to: ‘And if I had a choice, would I want to be me?’ The entire album feels like a battle cry and there is no specific enemy. Is it her lovers? Her friends? The world? Or herself? At times it feels like she might be surrendering… but then the next song punches you in the face and you feel silly for even thinking that. When I try to describe the sound of the band, I think of what Rebecca told me when I first met her, ‘we have a pop spirit with a punk attitude’, and I couldn’t have said it better myself – so I wont! The melodies are lush and euphoric and at times harsh, her voice is seductive and passionate.  In ‘la ballad de maori’, we finally get to hear Maxwell’s deep brooding voice that juxtaposes Rebecca’s so well. The album closes with ‘4 ever lulu’ and it feels like an ending. A sonically beautiful song to wrap it all up. A finale that makes you wish you had more. For now though, we will just have to play LOVECITY on repeat.

If you are looking for an album to dance, cry, fuck and sing along to… then this is the album for you. Check it out below:

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