From 2003, 'The Seal Cub Clubbing Club' were a five-piece post-punk band but since 2011, Nik Glover and James Freeman from the band have been releasing material with their new project, 'The Loved Ones', which also features musicians Rich Hurst and Ben Shooter and this Wirral based four-piece has been combining folk, electronic and 'odd ambient hip hop' since June 2011. Inspired by their home town West Kirby, the group released its debut single 'Are You Hiding Out In Hell?' on the 21st of November before releasing their debut album 'The Merry Monarch' in 2013. They have cemented themselves as a flagship act of Liverpool’s music landscape since the release of their proper debut single. Nik, Richard, James and Ben have said that their music is inspired by places rather than people. Singer Nick said: "The music we play is kind of folktronica. It is like folk music mixed with old ambient hip hop, and it is influenced by West Kirby quite a lot. I moved to West Kirby about two years ago and it's the most beautiful place in the world. It is really hard not to just write a whole album about the beaches and stuff there. It is hard not to be inspired by the Welsh when, living on the Wirral Peninsula, North Wales is what we see every day."
The
band were tipped for success by NME after performances at Binnacle
Festival in London, Swn Festival in Cardiff and at Liverpool Music Week. Lashings of support and strong plaudits quickly followed as the band picked up the inaugural GIT Award
in May 2012 while reeling in praise from the national music press, all
licking their lips with anticipation for the unreleased album that was
set to turn heads and fine-tune ears.
They are not your average band and don't do
things by the book as this is a set of musicians who live, work
and breathe in the pursuit of artistic perfection and simply nothing
but that will do. In
2013 they aired their debut album 'The Merry Monarch' in the idyllic
setting of the Scandinavian Church. In choosing to redesign and fine
tune 'The Merry Monarch', they were moving
away from their tried and tested formula to a larger, more ambitious
sound, a decision that was met with deliberation, as the anticipation
was ramped to breaking point. Nearly two years
after the release of their debut material that stopped the pulse of the
Liverpool music scene, they were finally ready to launch the
debut that they dared to create on their terms.
It was a long awaited celebration, shrouded in inquisitive mystery, mirrored by the far from ordinary setting of the Scandinavian Church.
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| At the Scandinavian Church |
Opening with 'Weekends Are Ours', Nick Glover’s velvet vocals softly resonated throughout the room, carried by subtle melody and rhythm of the band’s euphoric previous single. Most notable was the new band dynamic, what was once the focal point of Nick’s songwriting was now a wholly defined and developed four piece, each link as strong as the last, intricately woven together to deliver a truly breathtaking live sound.
For their single 'Paper Crown', the band departed from the recorded arrangement of heavy drum loops, instead reinventing themselves and with performances like this it was hard not to in envisage 'Loved Ones' as not only poster boys for a new breed of home-grown talent, but a band to be celebrated at national level and beyond.
In 2016, after an extended absence it was on a sunny Merseyside night that they re-appeared in all their glory at Hardman Street’s Buyers Club and Getintothis’ Zach Jones was there to see them. "The previous GIT Award winners are back with new material, a new drummer and new enthusiasm. 'Loved Ones' may be a slight change of pace, but it’s them everyone is here to see. It is a testament to them to finally return with such composure and quality. Over the sea of heads Buyers Club sets the scene of a potential show of the year. Their new material is truly fantastic and shows that sometimes simple songs written honestly can have the greatest impact. We live in a world where everyone is trying to be someone else, and sometimes the purpose of writing music is lost in that. 'Loved Ones' music speaks with such an authenticity that it is a genuine pleasure to watch. The new line up, new material and new enthusiasm has only amplified all the traits that made them such an incredible band in the first place. Viva Loved Ones."
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