“Its lipstick’s a little smudged and its stockings are a little torn…”

On October 31, 2025, UK artist Luvcat finally brings her cinematic universe into full focus with the release of her debut album Vicious Delicious via AWAL — a record that feels less like a collection of songs and more like a cult film you wander into at midnight and never fully escape from.

Already hailed as “British music’s most compelling new storyteller” by Dork, and praised for “bringing back personality and a romantic allure to modern music” by Rolling Stone UK, Luvcat arrives with all the trimmings of a cult icon in real time: noir glamour, messy romance, sharp humour, and a world that her fans don’t just listen to — they inhabit.

“Alien”: An Anthem for the Beautifully Out of Place

The album’s dreamy focus single “Alien” takes Luvcat back to her youth, to the version of herself who never quite fit in, watching the world from the corner of the room.

“‘Alien’ is a song for the misfits, yearning to find their kindred spirit,” she explains. “It was one of the earliest songs written for the record, up in Liverpool. It’s about being at rock n roll parties growing up and sometimes feeling like the little green martian girl in the corner. Like everyone knew a secret I didn’t.”

There’s something instantly timeless about that image: a girl in eyeliner and leather, pressed against the wall at some half-chaotic, half-romantic afterparty, seeing everything and belonging nowhere. It’s that emotional outsider energy that powers Vicious Delicious from start to finish.

A Whirlwind Through Love, Lust, and Lunacy

Described as “a symphony of seduction, cinema and soft rock” by Wonderland, Vicious Delicious is a whirlwind ride through love, lust, and the lunacy in between.

Written between Parisian escapades, impromptu studio sessions, and whirlwind romances, the album fuses:

  • Dark fairytale storytelling
  • Jazz and punk romanticism
  • A splash of gothic sparkle and old-Hollywood decadence

It’s a world where murder ballads like “He’s My Man” sit comfortably beside sex-tape serenades like “Love & Money”, and the danger of the title track “Vicious Delicious” feels equal parts erotic and ominous. The songs don’t just flirt with chaos — they slow dance with it.

“Old school romance slightly off its hinges”

For Luvcat, the album wasn’t plotted on a whiteboard. It happened in motion, in the slipstream of a life lived too fast to overthink.

“Making this album happened accidentally,” she admits. “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.”

Halloween — of course — is the only date that makes sense for a record like this.

“Its lipstick’s 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,” she says. “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.”

It reads like a manifesto and a warning label in one.

From “Matador” to Modern Cult Icon

Luvcat’s rise hasn’t been quiet; it’s been seductive, relentless, and deeply fan-driven.

Since her explosive debut with “Matador,” she’s built a mythology around herself — a character that exists somewhere between torch singer, anti-heroine, and cinematic villain you can’t help but root for. Her mix of noir glamour, heart-on-sleeve vulnerability, and razor-sharp wit hasn’t just won listeners; it’s inspired a full-blown subculture.

In just over a year, she has:

  • Racked up 46M+ career streams
  • Sold out tours across the UK, EU, and US
  • Attracted fans who dress like her, tattoo her lyrics, and literally travel continents to be part of “the myth”

 

It’s not fandom — it’s devotion.

The Most Tipped New Obsession of 2025

The industry has noticed. Luvcat is already one of the most tipped artists for 2025, championed by:

  • Rolling Stone UK
  • The GRAMMYs
  • Clash, Notion, Billboard UK
  • The Independent, and more

It’s rare to see critical acclaim, underground cult status, and mainstream momentum all orbiting the same debut record — but Vicious Delicious seems perfectly designed to live in that tension.

100+ Shows, 20+ Countries, and a World That Keeps Getting Bigger

With over 100 gigs in more than 20 countries in 2025 alone, Luvcat has turned the road into her natural habitat. From Glastonbury to Reading & Leeds to Radio 1’s Big Weekend, she’s been quietly stealing scenes and collecting disciples one festival set at a time.

Now, with Vicious Delicious out in the world, she launches an ambitious run of UK, EU, and US tour dates in celebration of the album — a victory lap that also feels like the beginning of something bigger, wilder, and stranger.

Vicious. Delicious. And Just Getting Started.

Vicious Delicious isn’t the tidy, polished debut of someone playing it safe; it’s the chaotic first novel of an artist who already knows exactly who she is — and is more interested in seduction than perfection.

It’s lipstick smeared at 3 a.m., stockings torn on cobblestones, secrets whispered in stairwells, and that dizzy moment between heartbreak and euphoria when you realise you’ll probably do it all again.

For the misfits in the corner, the incurable romantics, the lovers and libertines:

Luvcat’s world is open. And it’s viciously, irresistibly delicious.

“Vicious Delicious” feels like a fever dream — part fairytale, part rock opera, part confession. What emotion or image first set this album in motion for you?
The strange music of the Kazimier Garden in Liverpool. Finding out that cyanide poisoning tastes like bitter almonds. The white table cloths of Brasserie Zédel in Soho.
You’ve described it as “old-school romance slightly off its hinges.” What does that mean to you — and where does your fascination with broken glamour come from?
I love writing about love with a few screws loose. Love that you find at a traveling circus, or at a funeral or at a doll hospital. I have always pined for classic romance but with a bit of spit and chaos thrown in.
 
“Alien” is such a beautiful ode to the outsiders. Do you still see yourself as that “little green martian girl in the corner,” or has the stage become your home now?
I think I’ll always be a little green girl but now I’ve found my kindred spirits. The song is an acceptance of being a misfit and the beauty of floating through the velvet skies in a world of your own.
Your lyrics blur the line between love and addiction, pleasure and danger. Do you think those opposites are what make your music — and maybe love itself — so intoxicating?
I think you need the dark to see the light. And comfort is killer. I always need a little bit of uncertainty to really feel alive.
The album moves through so many moods — from punkish rebellion to cinematic melancholy. Was there a particular era or sound that you were channeling as your North Star while writing it?
It always comes back to Tom Waits. He is my North Star. I think my second record will be even more heavily inspired by Tom’s work. I read his songbook regularly, almost like a bible. I love his descriptions of the underbelly of society. It’s vivid, poetic, theatrical and darkly comedic.
There’s something almost literary about Vicious Delicious — like each song could be a short story. Do you see yourself more as a songwriter or a storyteller?
Songwriter. Because it has to circle back to a chorus and take the listener on a whole journey in 4 minutes. Well not always but mostly.
You’ve called the album “a pendulum between ecstasy and melancholy.” What side of that pendulum are you on right now, emotionally or artistically?
Definitely ecstasy. Life right now is truly delicious!!!
You recorded across Paris, Liverpool, and countless whirlwind moments. How did those places — and the chaos of constant movement — shape the record’s energy?
I think it’s a chaotic record, definitely. It’s sincere in places, bizarre in places. Everything moved so fast with the band, I’ve always felt like I was trying to catch my tail. It was very fun to document these stories in stolen moments while we were on the road. However, I’m very much looking forward to sitting and making my next body of work in one room haha!
Your fans have built a cult around your world — dressing like you, tattooing your lyrics, chasing the myth. How do you navigate being both the creator and the creation in that mythology?
It’s not something I’ve thought about to be honest. All I guess I can do is put on the best show I can each night and keep surrounding myself with mad characters and causing mischief together and soaking it all up and opening my heart. That way the songs will always fall out of me.
If Vicious Delicious were a film, what would the final scene look like? And who’s standing next to you as the credits roll?
The final scene would be back to the beginning. Like in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. All the characters she meets down the rabbit hole were actually all guests at the garden party in the real world at the start of the book. So standing next to me would be all the lovers who I stole a piece of and embedded into this album.