The_Lovethugs-Babylon_Fading-CD-FLAC-2005-401

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     Artist......: The Lovethugs
     Album.......: Babylon Fading

     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Rainbow Quartz
     Genre.......: Rock


     Tracks......: 13
     Bitrate.....: 931 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 00:50:15  (350.MB)
     Rls date....: 2026-01-07
     Store date..: 2005-04-19
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Url.........: http://www.thelovethugs.no/



     01 Babylon Fading                                                   3:48
     02 Close Beside Her                                                 3:22
     03 Saturn Day                                                       3:27
     04 Save My Soul                                                     3:25
     05 Tired Girl                                                       3:25
     06 Wonder                                                           4:10
     07 I've Heard A Rumour                                              4:14
     08 Love Machine                                                     3:48
     09 Up For Love                                                      3:02
     10 Let Me In                                                        5:43
     11 Night Time Seance                                                5:44
     12 Make It Slow                                                     3:18
     13 The Midget                                                       2:49



     The Lovethugs' second album, 2005's Babylon Fading is a slight step forward
     for the Oslo, Norway, quartet (plus a percussionist). 2003's Playground
     Instructors was a trippy but melodically strong neo-psychedelic record that
     sometimes strayed into jam band territory and was held back by vocalist
     Jorgen's awkward vocals and lyrics. The same pluses and minuses apply here,
     but the pluses are stronger and the minuses are less obvious. First those
     diminished minuses: the vocals aren't quite as far out front and Jorgen
     seems more relaxed at the mic, they blend their jams into the songs much
     more smoothly, and the lyrics are less clunky. On the plus side the songs
     are stronger, the arrangements more organically trippy, and the band sounds
     more at home in the studio and just much improved in general. Unlike the
     first album, some of the songs here will stick with you for good reasons:
     "Save My Soul" is a fine mid-tempo groover with bubbling percussion work
     from Mudman (who shines throughout on various forms of percussion and
     possesses the perfect name for a behind-the-scenes percussion specialist),
     while the rollicking, Kinksy "Close Beside Her" and the hard-rocking "Up
     for Love" are as good as any by current practitioners of the retro pop
     psych underground sound. Only a few tracks ("I've Heard a Rumour," "Love
     Machine") sound as forced or ridiculous ("Night Time Seance," "The Midget")
     as those on the first album. The Lovethugs need to lower that ratio a bit
     to deliver a truly satisfying album, but Babylon Fading is still an
     improvement and a solid neo-psych nugget.

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