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The Loves
Xs and Os / She'll Break Your Heart... Again
Fortuna Pop
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written by Paul M
Sep 16, 2006.
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The merits of Anglo-Welsh popsters The Loves have long been pushed by this site. Like any cherished item though there’s always a fear that one day the fondness will pass when confronted by a realisation that the cuddly little ted on your bed no longer has soft fur and shiny black eyes but is now a bald smelly Cyclops. So, imagine my dismay when the first two tracks I spin on this EP fail to stir my loins or get my hips a swivelling like the old days. Verily the bear appears to be no longer hirsute and lawks, it has a hole below its brow... But wait… I’m playing the record at the wrong speed! And, I’ve put on the B-side! Bloody cryptic labels! Spinned at the right speed, the two tracks are unsurprisingly improved somewhat but still they’re not quite the peaks of yore... Has ted got alopecia and an ocular infection? Luckily, track 1 over on the A-side, Xs and Os, is much better, a singalonga slab of harmonic blues… but the real gem is track 2, the b-side of their 1st ever single She’ll Break Your Heart. It’s given a glam make-over here and sent tottering onto the catwalk as She’ll Break Your Heart… Again. And my God, Mrs Perkins, you’re beautiful! Where before it was sweet but plain, a somewhat sparse little number carried along on Simon’s nasally vocals, here it’s been all Spector-ised, a huge wall of sound production engulfing soaring keys, military percussion, chimes and a terrific Louie Louie-esq 60s riff. A transformation beyond any gurning TV fashionista, I’m telling ya, and yes, ted’s as fine and dandy as ever...
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