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| Author: | Simon Los Love [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:40 pm ] |
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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