Out now on the increasingly prolific and always great Frenchkiss Records is the debut album from The Bloodthirsty Lovers. Formed by David Shouse in his Memphis attic, this album started off as a CDR sold and passed around at shows. It fell into the hands of Syd Butler, Frenchkiss mainman and bassist with Les Savy Fav. He loved it so much it offered to put it, and the next album which isn't even recorded yet. Bradley Kulisic has a word in David Souse's ear.
WORD: So why the name Bloodthirsty Lovers? Any meaning
behind it other than it does sound nice?
DS: It's provokes immediate response, negative as well as positive.
WORD: How did the band come together?
DS: After the Grifters split up in 1998 I formed a band called Those Bastard
Souls with friends from around the US, made two records & called it quits
after a rather odd relationship with V2 Records. Making the Lovers record
was my rehab stint out of the numbing world of major label sickness!
WORD: This record is a reissue
of a home made record you made and sold yourself. Is there another
on the way soon, when
can we expect it and what's it going to sound like?
DS: We will be doing another record for Frenchkiss/Southern. The debut disc
is 99% me; the next one will be a band project and we'll be playing six or
seven new songs on our upcoming US tour. The new music sounds like the child
of madness & reason...
WORD: Do you have any kind of mission statement.
How do the live shows work?
DS: Live the band subscribes to the theory of the Datapunk: assimilation & defiance.
WORD: Thanks David.
Bloodthirsty Lovers self titled album was released in February 2003 on Frenchkiss.