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The Love - 'Of All the Things in the World that Could Kill You. . .' ep.

Termisique Records
The Love

Me, I've never been a big one for hardcore. I'm more of a Elliott Smith plays piano while Conor Oberst writes songs that Tim Kasher sings with Springsteen playing creepy-ass old rock guitar kind of guy. An indie rocker, if you would like to generalize me like I do. Planes Mistaken for Stars, Blood Brothers, At the Drive-In. That's usually as hard as I get.
The Love: imagine if Beep Beep and Q and not U some how bred with the Phantom of the Opera and the Daughters and made babies. That's what you've got with The Love. The sass is so outstanding that it's oozing into the way I walk. I'm turning sassy by listening to it. Within the first few moments of the record, I'm regretting my anti-hardcore ways; they make me want to love hardcore, they make me want to punch people in the face at live shows and never drink again. Something in their swagger, their screeching, Lord-soaked vocals, and their cross-germination of male and female coals, makes the world a better place.
It's not until the first listen through that I really knew what was going on--'Beautiful', the ep closer, is where the magic sinks in—the do-do chorus and sass-tastic keyboard line suddenly infused itself to my brain, and for days I've been walking along, do-do-doing, much to my roommates dismay.
For Termisique Records, a little indie label out of Laramie, Wyoming, that's obsessed with hardcore, they have found their superstar in the Love—this ep marks a change of pace for them, and it'd be good for them—and us—to take notice.

posted by Colin Reed Moon @ 2:37 PM