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| Boy Crazy 2013 |
She's the 20-something cowpunk princess from Coschocton who could become queen with her toxic tales of liquid and personal debauchery.
The critical legend that began with her 2011 debut on Bloodshot Records - Indestructible Machine - grows with the new EP, Boy Crazy. Both were preceded by 2010's The Only Man.
Comparisons to the Furnace Room Lullaby twang of Neko Case are fair, but she never went Lydia-level wild.
Boy Crazy is five songs of bad love, longing, heartbreak and one psycho Lover's Spat.
All I Know is the long-distance affair that can't be satisfied and All The Time is the break-up that still maddeningly aches. The aquatic erotica of The Water makes it one of the sexiest odes to a former lover you'll ever hear.
The title track, meanwhile, trips on lust for an older man: "I know the situation's shady, but they used to say I was just boy crazy."
Nonetheless, all pale beside Lover's Spat, which Loveless wrote for the Dead Girlfriends (her sister's band) and in the liner notes thanks them for "letting me take it."
There hasn't been a one-nighter go this wrong since She's Insane by the Favors. But instead hiding in the bathroom, he's "running around naked by the side of the road."
Loveless purrs, "When the cops get called you can hide in the closet or behind my back/Oh, why don't they understand it's just a lover's spat?"
This time out the band includes guitarist Todd May, drummer Nick German (replacing her father Parker Chandler), guitarist Jay Gasper and bassist Ben Lamb - Loveless' husband and formerly of the X-Rated Cowboys. The cover art is by Columbus' former king of the Sovines, Bob Ray Starker.
It all adds up to an irresistible tease before a planned full-length release entitled Somewhere Else in February 2014.
If this EP is any indication of what's coming, it'll be another reason to go Lydia Loveless crazy.
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