Loves - Three

  by Sarah Maybank

published: 6 / 5 / 2009

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Well, they say write about what you know, don’t they? And Simon Love knows hook-riddled, fuzzed-up bubblegum pop the way Labour MPs know the ins and outs of a House of Commons expenses form. As in ‘like a master’. Nine years and 29 band members in, the Cardiff indie-pop megalomaniac and self-proclaimed not-so-benign dictator delivers the band’s third LP, ‘Three’. And while it’s undoubtedly a romping, stomping chantalong good-time of a record, it sees them suffering from Kaiser Chiefs syndrome too; as in you can imagine their songs being hollered from football terraces to G20 demos - but it’s not all that different from all their other stuff. Three’s highlights actually materialise outside of Simon’s beloved bubblegum/garage/glam rock template. ‘Can You Hear My Heart Beat?’ raunches breathily in the spirit of Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’, ‘Kaleidoscope (In My Head)’, is a mini-opera about mental condition synaesthesia that even dips into country and western, and the downbeat, contemplative ‘Everybody Is In Love’, written when a spectacular personnel cull had reduced the band to its founder member, is possibly Simon’s only recorded moment of self-doubt. The press release jokes: “The band have strayed away from their bubblegum pop roots to embrace world music, three-stringed lute madrigals, gothic metal and even hip-hop.” With Simon’s song-crafting skills, you can’t help wishing they would. Imagine what that would be like. Over to you, Loves.

Track Listing:-

1 One-Two-Three
2 Kaleidoscope (In My Head)
3 You Don't Have To
4 The Ex-Gurlfriend
5 Everybody Is In Love
6 Take 'Em Down, Charlie Brown
7 Ode To Coca-Cola
8 Love Song #7
9 Sweet Sister Delia
10 Can You Feel My Heart Beat?
11 Waiting For Tomorrow

Band Links:-

http://www.simonlove.org
http://www.facebook.com/simonloverules
http://www.twitter.com/simonloverules

Label Links:-

http://www.fortunapop.com/
https://twitter.com/fortunapop
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fortuna-POP/202756739792517

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