Band/Artist: LOVESUCKER
Location: Charlotte NC
Styles: Indie-Funk-Desert Rock-Soul
Similar to/RIYL: The KIlls, The Black Crows, Erykah Badu, Funkadelic
CD: Self-titled
Members/Instruments: Crystal Crosby-Vocals/ Percussion
Zoltan Von Bury- Guitar, Bass, Drums, Organ
Production: Elddy Trevino and Zoltan Von Bury
Bio:
Original sounds are as rare as No. 1 hits in music but they do come along if you know exactly where to look. LOVESUCKER, the duo of Crystal Crosby and Zoltan Von Bury, brings two distinct and different musical styles and combines them into a powerhouse so strong that even the most educated listener will have to listen to each song over and over to pick out where one style ends and the other begins.
Crosby, with a gilt edged voice and a delivery straight from the heart, calls her style Gypsy Soul. “It’s a state of mind – freedom, movement, fire and heart, even if it’s fragmented… to move through a song and sound with fluidity and transparency, embracing those things that we speak of – love, spark and hope, dazzled with trickery and fury.”
Crosby owes her style to Etta James, Grace Slick and Tori Amos, for starters. “While many were painting the picket fences, these pioneers were torching the grounds with their guttural truths of the ache of love, revenge and survival,” she says.
Von Bury is a rocker at heart, owing his influences to the movement of the 1970s. I write music with an Indie sensibility, embracing early 70’s true funk tones and nuances,” he says. “Nothing more than that. So the descriptions ‘Indie Funk and Gypsy Soul’ actually have a true meaning or a power source, if you will. That is who we are and what we do.
Simple as that. There are no examples for those terms because there is no one out there doing this sound, this is OUR sound.”
LOVESUCKER’s self-titled debut record, is set to debut in October 2014 and will be
available on the band’s website and BandCamp.
“Mississippi,” which tells the story of a dead slave haunting his slave master, takes you so deep into the Delta that you’d swear that Robert Johnson was hiding in the bushes just around the bend.
“Show Me,” a funky soul vibe, is part Etta James and part Grace Slick to make a whole Crosby delivery and a Von Bury groove that is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
“Guns and Gasoline” is a look into the dark night of the soul when friendship is the rock when the heart takes a killer blow. The combination of Crosby’s strong, edgy female voice and Von Bury’s guitar chops is the signature sound of LOVESUCKER’s Gypsy Soul meets Indie Rock.