Crafting elegant lounge pop that harks back to ‘60s-era James Bond movie themes and dark Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra duets, Codeine Velvet Club features Scottish singer Lou Hickey and singer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Lawler, better known as the founder of the Fratellis. The duo formed when Lawler announced he was going to embark on a solo project after the Fratellis finished touring in support of their second album Here We Stand. Hickey, a singer at one of Britain's largest burlesque clubs, received a grant from the Scottish Arts Council to make an album; Lawler's wife, a ...