ARTiST: Nine Black Alps
ALBUM: Love/Hate
BiTRATE: 206kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Island
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 55.15 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 35min 37sec total
RiP DATE: 2007-10-26
STORE DATE: 2007-10-29
Track List:
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01. Bitter End 3:12
02. Burn Faster 2:48
03. Everytime I Turn 3:02
04. Pet Hate 3:33
05. Painless 3:30
06. Future Wife 2:39
07. Heavier Than Water 4:18
08. Happiness And Satisfaction 3:23
09. So In Love 2:12
10. Forget My Name 3:16
11. Under The Sun 3:44
Release Notes:
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'Love/Hate' is the second album from Nine Black Alps, and it's beautiful. It
sees spleens vented, demons exorcised, and a band ready to take their rightful
place at the summit of the BritrockÆs own mountain range. Their thunderous debut
'Everything Is' was squarely the sound of a band from, of, and in Manchester.
The latest in a succession, both noble and paranoid of music based in the rainy
cityÆs unique position between the gutter and the stars.
'Love/Hate' still rocks like a bastard, but it smells and sparkles more like the
band's (spiritual) homeland on the west coast of America. It's the classic sound
of optimism, of longing and of redemption, with beautiful layers of country to
undercut the drama. The album really soars where the grunge in the AlpsÆ DNA
intersects with blissful, sunkissed pop; Laurel Canyon meets The Lemonheads
jammed through QOTSAÆs fun machine. And the song youÆll be humming all the way
into next year is the gorgeous 'Bitter End'. The closest the Alps have ever come
to a straightforward love song, its refrain of "baby come down", will tug your
heartstrings while making your heart sing. Then thereÆs the blissful, Beach
Boys-inflected, 'Future Wife', written when Sam was struck down with the Mumps
at the start of the 'Everything Is' campaign.
Sweet, rich, and rocking like a bastard. 'Love/Hate' even down to its enigmatic
title, is about the polarities and opposites that add up to the richness of
human experience. In fact, the only thing that æisÆ constant throughout is its
brilliance. This record sees Sam Forrest come of age as a songwriter, and Nine
Black Alps graduate to rockÆs premier league.