Luvcat – Vicious Delicious

Label: AWAL
Released: 31st October 2025

Luvcat’s debut album ‘Vicious Delicious’ is knowingly over-the-top: an invitation to a world of doomed romances, lipstick smudges and haunted pianos. It’s full of cabaret confidence, but rooted in sharp songwriting and a clear sense of identity.

‘Lipstick’ starts as the album means to go on: seductive and theatrical, with the line “Come kiss off my lipstick” brashly delivered as both a challenge and a promise. ‘Alien’ offers a reflective moment early, before ‘Matador’ tips back into romantic melodrama.

‘Dinner @ Brasserie Zedel’ is an obvious standout, packed with narrative flair and camp showmanship, while ‘He’s My Man’ leans darker – “I need him so much that it hurts” feeling, frankly, a bit like a threat. ‘Vicious Delicious’ plays with pop culture iconography, throwing around Sid and Nancy references like broken glass.

There’s warmth in ‘Love & Money’, a rare moment of relative calm, and ‘Spider’ leans gleefully into the gothic. ‘Emma Dilemma’ spirals like a fairground ride, while ‘The Kazimier Garden’ soundtracks some sort of beautiful, tragic interlude in a crumbling theatre.

‘Laurie’ is stripped back and sad (“He only phones me when he’s full of drink” hits hard), and ‘Blushing’ would be sexy if it didn’t end up quite so deranged. “Stroking my rose” is… a choice.

Final track ‘Bad Books’ is Luvcat in full cabaret mode – a theatrical, slightly unhinged checklist of her favourite fixations: cats, kisses, sultry pet names, religious iconography. “Crucifix above my bed, it hasn’t melted yet” is the final flourish of a record that loves a bit of drama and never once looks away.

‘Vicious Delicious’ is a debut built on style, but carried by substance. Luvcat knows precisely what she’s doing.