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Love Love’s debut album is flooded by influences from the various contemporary bands at the time. The jangling guitars of The Byrds, the cool bass lines of The Who, the roughly recorded vocals of The Kinks, the orchestration of The Beatles. The sources are many, and usually it is quite tiresome to listen to albums and artists that seemingly can’t produce one original idea themselves. However, the songwriting in this particular case is so strong and the performances convincing enough to make the listener forget about minor flaws like that. It is great pop music. Simple as that. And every now and then the songs even manage to be emotionally resonant, something that The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and loads of other bands at the time rarely succeeded to transform into their records. I mean, how lovely and gorgeous a song like “And I Love Her” might be, there isn’t a lot resembling true emotions in the actual performance. Love, however, manages to put some genuine emotions into something like “A Message To Pretty”, despite how banal the lyrics might be. Also, there is a high energy level throughout the performances. The band rocks out when appropriate, sometimes even on a nearly punk-ish level, lean backs into a Simon & Garfunkel folk atmosphere and sometimes just rips off fantastic pop tunes with the exactly right attitude. It’s a diverse album. Even though Love appears as nothing but imposters, they do their thing damn well and Love should not be stay in the shadows of their colleges work, or even their own releases.
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