So then...
The Loves 2nd LP is out on the magnificient Fortuna Pop label on Monday
February the 12th.
It's called "Technicolour" and has 12 songs.
We've already had over 1 review (2 reviews) for it...see them below all
the rest of this...
To celebrate the fact that we've made an LP and I've still got a band
who don't totally hate my guts and are able and willing to play the
songs live, we're going to play some shows
February
14th- London. The Loves' St Valentine's Day Mascara 2- The Revenge! @
Industry, 1 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, EC2A 3JX
16th- Bath. Purr @ Invention Studios, Lower Borough Walls
17th- Cardiff. Loose @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street
22nd- Nottingham. Red Room @ Rescue Rooms, Masonic Place, Goldsmith
Street
23rd- Glasgow. The 13th Note, 50-60 King Street
24th- Edinburgh. Downstairs @ The Tron, 9 Hunter Square
March
18th- Cardiff. Solus @ Cardiff University (TBC)
19th- London. Old Blue Last, 39 Great Eastern Road
24th- Rochester. Moogie Wonderland @ The Cellar
25th- Aberystwyth. Aber Uni Student Union.
That's a lot isn't it? We're not headlining all of them. To find out who
we're playing with when (or to suggest places we should play) go to our
myspace page-
http://www.myspace.com/lovetheloves
There you can hear a song off the LP before it's released. You lucky
people.
You can also see that I've recently discovered how to use youtube. Nice.
So I hope to see some or all of you at the above shows and in shops
buying our LP. Out Monday the 12th of February. The perfect Valentine's
gift for a lover, mother, sister, brother, grandparent or mortal enemy.
Love
Simon Love...
Fun and frolics from yet another band in thrall to Sixties pop
It's normally Americans who lovingly recreate the pop of the British
invasion and late Sixties, but this time round it's Cardiff's Loves.
Twelve tracks, 34 minutes and about 100 references to every pop artist
of that era you care to name. Apart from the seven minute opener "Je
T'Aime Baby", which feels like a refugee from a completely different
album, it's good-time fun bubblegum pop all the way. They've got the
high harmonies, they've got the slightly fuzzy guitars, they've got the
disposable (and largely
interchangeable) lyrics and the production is multilayered,
authentically thin and a bit trebly. "Xs and Os" and "Summertime" are
the highlights and "(Gimme Gimme) The Good Times the manifesto. After
having been through 25 or so band members in the last six years main man
Simon Love (allegedly) appears to have finally hit on a line-up that can
deliver his vision effectively. It's all good clean fun, and if it
doesn't advance the cause of civilisation much who cares? ****art, lets
dance.
6 out of 10
www.americana-uk.com LP review
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The Loves
Technicolour (Fortuna Pop!)
My first thought is, they've misspelled the album title! Yet it's
appropriate: The Loves are slightly off-centre in their unabashed
recreation of Sixties pop. Simon Love's guileless appropriation of
sundry riffs (particulary 'Louie Louie') and songtitles ('Je T'aime,
Baby', 'Summertime') would be cloying in other hands, especially when
matched to his obvious delirious fondness for The Velvet Underground,
Serge Gainsbourg and early Creation Records. Yet somehow it works here:
the love is so pure.
Simon's second band- the previous Loves entirely disbanded- are
splendid, a summertime treat in winter, the midpoint between Detroit's
sweet Francophiles The Come-Ons and Brighton's Pipettes.
Everett True
www.planbmag.com
We hope there'll be some more reviews...
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