Finally, a decent UK response to the LA's lo-fi scuzz-punkers makes the stage. No Age hit well with the critics but missed in sales and Times New Viking will forever be their badly monikered tail-grabbers. Mika Miko are proving consistent, but lacked a knockout punch. Lovvers, however, may just have one in the altogether more commercially minded, but no less compromising, `Human Hair'. As EP opener on the ludicrously short, 13-minute sampler,
Think, and strong near-closer here, it comes on like a lost Supergrass number, only fed through a punk mangler and flirting with a surf-punk finale all the while. On this track, Lovvers are closer to Jay Reatard's brand of fun-time no-fi than elsewhere where they match their across-the-pond peers' fuzzy unintelligibility. It is said that in general audiences do not `get' Lovvers, but, in a good way, there is little to get. Go go go get a copy to make your own mind up.