LoveyDove is an American pop and roll band[1] that formed in February 2011 by Philadelphia-born Azalia Snail and California native Dan West.

"[6] LA Weekly said, "LoveyDove ... never fail to flabbergast," describing their sound as "deliciously chewy, loaded with dynamics, color and articulate lyrics that are both acutely chosen and shrewdly applied.

The Miami New Times called her a "singular talent" and described her music as, "Imagine stripping off all the studio layers of (T Rex, Roxy Music, and Mott the Hoople), retaining their Oscar Wilde-ian lyrical and structural flights of fancy, and channeling it through a muse with an ethereal, dream-pop-worthy voice.

"[9] Dan West is an LA-based recording artist and studio musician whose catalogue includes solo albums and numerous collaborations.

The duo has cited Trio, Teddybears, Illyah Kuryahkin, Dusty Springfield, T Rex, The Kinks, Love, Doves, The Troggs, Petula Clark, The Monkees, The Beatles, Lou Reed, Debussy, Stravinsky, Love American Style, Mary Tyler Moore, and Dick Van Dyke as influences, in addition to acknowledging that their collaborative music, praised as "high-grade modernist pop",[13] is informed by their respective solo careers.

They have also performed at multiple live venues in Los Angeles, including the Ace Hotel, The Teragram Ballroom, Harvard & Stone, Taix, Viva Cantina, El Cid, the Dresden, and at The Grammy Museum, where they sang with the legendary singer Melanie.

[28][29] L.A. Record called the album "an eclectic and electrically exciting blend of excellent songwriting and pinpoint precise production, with melodies to live by and a dance beat to die for!

Sweet, savory, gorgeously rendered and painstakingly arranged, every track is a masterly example of their complex bubble-gum simplicity - a cunning, stunning contradiction that reliably engages the brain as it reaches deep into the soul.

Snail Meets West is a tribute to the late free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman who influenced many musicians.

[36] Powertool Records (NZ) Snail, of LoveyDove, won the LA Weekly Music Award for Best New Genre in 2000.