Track Of The Day :: LUVV - Nothing

In the year since we introduced Cardiff-based LUVV here, with their first track 'More', which they then followed up later in the summer with 'Free', they have been a little quiet on our radar.

So it was with eager ears that we listened to this new track, 'Nothing', that they have emerged blinking into the early spring of 2015 with, and boy (or should we say, boyo...?), do we like.

'Nothing' could well be the best thing they have produced yet; they've certainly honed their sound over the last months. They've been described previously as producing "tough yet melodically intelligent punk", and that is a pretty much what this hard-hitting, muscular track is about.

Built around reverb-drenched guitars that ring out gloriously, furiously and insistently, as Short spits his lines out across the four minutes that capture the sense of anger and bitter disdain behind the lyrics; a vocal message that sums up in a heartfelt cry, much about society today.  "Everybody wants to be famous / everybody wants the good things in life / well, how does it feel / how does it feel / how does it feel / when you have nothing?"



LUVV, who formed in 2013, have also made a line-up change since they were last in the studio. Second guitarist Iwan Heneghan joined late last year to bring the band up to a five-piece along with Matt Short on vocals and Ben Mainwaring, bass - both ex- of The Dead Beggars Club - together with Sami Hunt, guitar, and Rich Clarke, drums, who were previously in another Cardiff outfit, Chain Of Flowers.

At the moment, the band told Little Indie, 'Nothing' is the first of "more to come soon, but [we're] unsure as to when or in what form that will appear." Which sounds a little mysterious, as is a "compilation" they are to be part of, but, "we can't say too much about that yet either, sadly!" Both, are doubtless, events to look forward to.

Meanwhile, soak in 'Nothing' as a stream above, and via the music video below.