Luvcat has shared her dark new EP ‘Lovebites’, featuring Pete Doherty and Dr John Cooper Clarke

Luvcat has released a new EP called ‘Lovebites’, a four-track collection of murder ballads and gothic love songs featuring appearances from Pete Doherty and Dr John Cooper Clarke.

Out now via AWAL, the project acts as a darker companion piece to last year’s debut album ‘Vicious Delicious’, expanding the Liverpool songwriter’s noir-pop universe with songs about obsession, danger and doomed romance.

At the centre of the EP is ‘Silent Killer’, a cinematic new track inspired by a near-fatal carbon monoxide leak in Luvcat’s former Camberwell flat.

“I was thinking of how love is very much like carbon monoxide or black mould,” she explains. “You can’t see it but sometimes it’s slowly, quietly poisoning you. An invisible assassin.”

“There’s a funeral march at the end of the song, and a poem (“the heavens below and the hell above / the kiss of death and the bite of love”). I called the EP ‘Lovebites’ in both the erotic and the aching way.”

Elsewhere, Dr John Cooper Clarke appears on ‘He’s My Man (The Anniversary)’, a reworked version of the viral fan favourite that followed the pair meeting at the Northern Music Awards.

Pete Doherty also features on closing track ‘Electric Chair’, which was born out of time spent touring together.

“He came up with ‘tie me to the electric chair in my Italian underwear… just promise me you’ll pay the leccy bill,’” Luvcat says. “It was really sweet and a fun, playful way to end the EP and I knew we had to invite him to record it.”