- 2025-10-02
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MUSIC
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Luvcat Releases New Single “He's My Man (The Anniversary)” with Dr John Cooper Clarke
British singer-songwriter Luvcat joined forces with British punk poet Dr John Cooper Clarke to release a new single “He's My Man (The Anniversary)” on October 1, 2025.
This marks the first collaboration between Luvcat and John Cooper Clarke.
The collaboration was sparked earlier this year when the pair crossed paths at The Northern Music Awards, where John Cooper Clarke was honoured and Luvcat scooped Breakthrough Artist of the Year.
The song is reimagined of “He's My Man”, which was released last September. The original version of the song will appear on her upcoming debut album “Vicious Delicious”, which is set Tobe released on October 31, 2025 via AWAL.
The track was written by Archie Faulks, John Cooper Clarke, and Sophie Morgan Howarth. Prduced by Oli Barton Wood.
Luvcat said of the collaboration, “I met John a few months back at The Northern Music Awards. He was being honoured and I won breakthrough artist of the year that night. I was so afraid to speak to him.. my dad was a punk and John’s work was spoken about a lot in our house. I found the courage to go over to his table and he couldn’t have been more sweet to me. I think John is the coolest man in the country and to have him play the role of my poisoned husband for the anniversary of this song is a true honour.”- The accompanying music video was directed by Ollie Bradley-Baker.
She said of the video, “I wanted to make everything darker; riddled with the mania and paranoia of a chainsmoking housewife slowly losing her sanity through her mundane chores and obsession with her man. We were both so busy before the shoot and hadn’t actually had a chance to record the new version. So in between scenes we went to the cottage bedroom and John read me his rewritten verse from a little scribbling on a torn piece of paper. It was all very surreal and spooky. There was actually a hornet swarm when we were filming and everyone was quietly terrified, matching the unsettling atmosphere we tried to create in the song. It was very very fun to be John’s murderous mob bride for the night.” -
The debut album comprises 13 tracks, which she recoded between Paris and various studio sessions. Produced by Oli Barton Wood, Kurran Karbal, Archie Faulks, and Thomas Fripp.
Luvcat said of the album, “Making this album happened accidentally. Amongst the madness of the last year I decided I didn’t wanna fuck around with EPs or mixtapes. I really wanted to make my first proper statement and when I found out Halloween fell on a Friday, I knew we had to be fast to get it together. Its lipsticks a little smudged and its stockings are a little torn, but I am so proud of how we’ve captured this strange, magical story and all the lovers and libertines I’ve met along the way. I think the record is old school romance slightly off its hinges. A swinging pendulum between love and addiction, ecstasy and melancholy, eroticism and innocence, the deliciously vicious and the viciously delicious.” - source : Apple Music
