ARTIST: Love Is All
TITLE: Nine Times That Same Song (Reissue)
LABEL: What's Your Rupture?
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 266 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 42min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-11-20
RIP DATE: 2006-11-00
Track List
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Disc 1/2
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1. Talk Talk Talk Talk 2:48
2. Ageing had Never Been His 2:43
Friend
3. Turn The Radio Off 3:51
4. Used Goods 2:20
5. Busy Doing Nothing 3:20
6. Make Outfall Out Make Up 2:58
7. Felt Tip 4:12
8. Spinning & Scratching 3:04
9. Turn The TV Off 3:24
10. Trying Too Hard 1:55
Disc 2/2
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1. Lost Thrills 2:32
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss (Yoko Ono) 3:01
3. Felt Tip (Demo) 4:35
4. Motorboat (Kim Fowley) 2:06
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/loveisall8
LOVE IS ALL BIO
From seemingly out of nowhere, Love is All seem to be everywhere - the cover of
magazines, darlings of the internet and on the lips of every die-hard music fan
in America. The result of a well-manicured press assault? One would think that
was the culprit, but, in actuality, the luck that has struck this Gothenburg
five-piece - Josephine (vocals, keyboards), Nicholaus (guitar), Markus (drums),
Johan (bass) and Fredrik (sax) - has been absolutely dumb, making both no sense
at all and the most sense in the world.
Where to start...
Josephine, Nicholaus, and Markus spent a long time in indie pop band Girlfrendo.
The release of their first LP, Surprise Surprise, led to a small lot of fans,
tours of America, Japan, Sweden (home sweet home!) and the UK. Their first
American tour was organized by a (handsome) NYU student named Kevin Pedersen,
and was to accompany another small UK group called Comet Gain. And BOOM! The
quietest explosion ever...but that will be explained later. The second
Girlfrendo LP was released, and their small lot of fans got even smaller
(probably the work of the DC sniper). And their poor fate was sealed when
Girlfrendo.com was taken over by a Russian internet porn ring.
Girlfrendo split, but no one wanted to stop playing. Their buddy Johan was
called in to play on a 7" for a Swedish label called Dolores. Love is All's
first single, "Lost Thrills," was released in an ambitious pressing of 300.
Their old pal Kevin loved it so much that he asked them to record a sson had seen the band a few
times and asked if he could play saxophone. Everyone agreed. Love is All was
officially born.
Without expectation, the band began to write. They experimented with different
directions for their sound, but the answer was presented to them in one
whirlwind day, when they wrote and recorded "Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up," and
the Love is All sound was discovered - "It was made in one breath and recorded
in one take a couple hours later." explains Nicholaus. Writing was followed by
recording, a very logical step for most bands. Love is All and What's Your
Rupture? were keen on asking Woodie Taylor to produce. Woodie had done some
work with Lee Perry, drummed with Morrissey and the Meteors, but, more
importantly, recorded and produced Comet Gain's Realistes LP... which is
everyone's favorite anyway. Unfortunately, no one had the money to go over to
England or bring Woddie and all his echo boxes to Sweden.... so the band recorded
three songs in about three hours on a small 8 track bleeding with noise and hiss
and mailed them to Woodie's lovely Windsor estate, which, incidentally, is
located just down the road from a very old Jimmy Page. Woodie added reverb and
some top secret tricks... we really can't tell.
While other new bands were drosome top secret tricks... we really can't tell.
While other new bands were dropping mp3's all over the internet, Love is All
decided to take a more traditional, more punk rock approach to getting their
music heard - they made four 7"s before ever making a full-length, the covers of
which were hand silk-screened in Kevin Pederson's kitchen, and sent them to
independent radio stations like WFMU who instantly championed their songs. In
fact, most of the people who first helped get the band's name out there happened
upon them by sheer coincidence. NME made "Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up" Single
of the Week after Sean Forbes, the infamous buyer at the Rough Trade Shop in
London, realized he received ten copies more than he should have and thought
some journalists should hear them immediately. Two weeks after being made
Single of the Week, the band received a call from John Peel to fly to London to
record a legendary Peel Session.
And so they decided it was time to make a record, which they called Nine Times
That Same Song. Songs on the album combine elements of many different genres -
dance punk, Riot Grrrl, No Wave, indie pop - and fuse them into one wholly unique
thing, the inevitable conclusion of a band whose influences lie all over the map.
"Josephine loves old indie punk bands like Kleenex and X-Ray Spex, I'm really into
Can, Brian Eno, The Kinks, Jonathan Richman, Slayer... one record I think we all
like is the first Roxy Music album!" says Markus. Nicholaus says simply, ôI guess
we influenced each other a lot."
The album spread like a wildfire upon release, popping up all over the internet
and into the hands of a few journalists eager to hear the band that magically had
a Peel Session before an album. Before long, they were being written about in the
New York Times, Spin and landed on the cover of The Fader, solely by word-of-mouth
and a true love of the band's songs. When it was announced that the band would be
playing a few US shows, among them 2006's SXSW festival, a frenzy broke out amongst
music fans, resulting in packed, sold-out shows throughout Texas, Chicago,
Philadelphia and New York City, where more than one fan crowd surfed and everyone
sang along on the top of their lungs. This is the reaction a good dose of love
will inspire. Especially when it's from Love is All.