Artist.......: The Lovetones
Album........: Dimensions
Label........: Planting Seeds Records
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: PSR-060
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: May-14-2009
str.date.....: 2009
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. moonlit suite (her room) 04:38
02. journeyman 04:19
03. two of a kind 03:09
04. look at the waves 06:09
05. memory lane 02:02
06. a new low in getting high 03:28
07. love and redemption 03:19
08. there is no sound 04:24
09. song to humanity 03:29
10. when it comes 04:42
11. journeyman (anton newcombe mix) 04:19
Runtime 43:58 min
Size 66,0 MB
Release Notes:
The Lovetones released their debut album, Be What
You Want in 2002 through Bomp! Records, creating a
palpable buzz amongst critics from the likes of
Creem and Rolling Stone magazine. The latter hailed
mainman Matthew J Tow's songwriting worthy of Ray
Davies, Bowie, Lennon and McCartney: a bold
statement, yet in his case, completely justified.
After enjoying the critical success of Be What You
Want, touring Australia extensively and even
supporting Morrissey during his first ever solo
Australian tour, Tow joined The Brian Jonestown
Massacre in 2003 and contributed two brilliant
tracks to their sonic mastery, ...And This Is Our
Music. Tow's opening track Starcleaner later also
appeared on the The BJM retrospective Tepid
Peppermint Wonderland. In the same year, UK based
Fire Records invited The Lovetones to contribute to
the James Joyce Chamber 2004 saw the release of the
Stars EP, coinciding with The Lovetones supporting
The Brian Jonestown Massacre on their infamous and
now legendary tour of Australia.
The second album Meditations was released through
New York's Tee Pee Records in late 2005, revealing
a stunning development in Tow's songwriting and
providing a soundscape of radiant pop, ethereal
psychedelia and truly remarkable vocal melodies
that arched for the stars. Soulful and sincere,
Meditations nodded gently and respectfully to the
pop masters of the sixties whilst never lacking in
original vision.
Returning from triumphant shows in the US in late
2005 and also at SXSW 2006, The Lovetones toured to
support Meditations' Australian release in May
2006. June 2006 saw The Lovetones complete a crazed
European tour across 12 countries with The Brian
Jonestown Massacre in support of Meditations'
release there through Tee Pee/Cargo Records,
culminating in a rave album review in respected UK
magazine Uncut.
The Lovetones also managed to record their third
album Axiom during 2006 with fervent sessions split
between Figment Studios in Hollywood and the Sydney
Opera House Recording Studio. More extensive
touring in the US and Australia followed.
Set for a November 2008 release in Australia,
Dimensions is The Lovetones' fourth studio album
and the latest chapter in the indie psychedelic pop
legacy of frontman Matthew Tow, who remains one of
Australia's most underrated songwriters. The album
was recorded in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney,
mixed in Los Angeles by Rob Campanella (Brian
Jonestown Massacre/Quarter After/Black Angels) and
mastered by William Bowden (one of Australia's
finest mastering engineers). The Lovetones will be
touring Australia in November/December before
heading back to the US to support the album's North
American release in January 2009.