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  • The Loves 'Technicolour' - Cargo Records UK

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    1. Je T'Aime, Baby
    2. I My She Love You
    3. She'll Break Your Heart... Again
    4. The Rainbow Connection
    5. Xs And Os
    6. Honey
    7. Jazz My Bads (For JT)
    8. So Sad
    9. Summertime
    10. How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
    11. (Gimme Gimme) The Good Times
    12. Goodbye

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  • The Loves 'Three' - Cargo Records UK

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    Recorded between August 2007 & February 2008 at Soup in London & Battery Studios in Brooklyn, Three sees THE LOVES almost maturing.

    Not much though. Most of the songs are still about girls. Except for the one about Coca-Cola. Says head Love, Simon- The basis of the record was recorded over 4 days in August with myself & Rob Jones (our long-term temp drummer) playing live together at Soup.

    Those sounded ace by themselves & then we started throwing everything & the kitchen sink on as overdubs. Overdubs including an alarm clock on LP closer (or is it?) WAITING FOR TOMORROW & a synth battle between ex-Hefner frontman Darren Hayman & THE LOVES' keyboardist The Ed in the suite-like song, KALEIDOSCOPE (IN MY HEAD)Part of the recording was done in Brooklyn in January 2008. We know a few people over there & they asked us if we'd like to record some bits for the LP with them so we went over & did THE EX-GURLFRIEND with them & a few extra odds & ends says Simon.When asked about the influences present in this LP Simon said- The usual bubblegum pop bollocks, but specifically, Boyce & Hart, The Who, The Flaming Lips & Bob Markley's A Group LP.

    The aforementioned ODE TO COCA-COLA is a love song to everyone's favourite drink. It's not wholly a 'Thumbs-up-for Coke' song though. There are a few of the more negative sides to drinking it in there says the group's spokesperson, Ziggy Rodriguez. There's also a loop of noise made with Coke bottles & cans that introduces the song like a cut-price version of Pink Floyd's Money.SWEET SISTER DELIA is a song dedicated to the doyen of the London indie scene & Artrocker correspondent- Miss Delia Dansette. We always stay at her house when we're in London so I thought we'd show her our gratitude with a song¦I'm sure she'd have preferred money or booze or something though The (almost) power ballad EVERYBODY IS IN LOVE is the song that the group tried to get Robyn Hitchcock to narrate.

    We emailed him but got a polite Thank-you-no-good-luck reply Bastard.Jenna Love gets to show off her pipes on CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART BEAT? a sweary bluesy swaggering song about lust & its effects.3 also includes YOU DON'T HAVE TO a cover of an obscure bubblegum song originally performed by The Beeds & THE LOVES' last hit single ONE-TWO-THREE.

    1. One Two Three 
    2. Kaleidoscope (In My Head) 
    3. You Don't Have To 
    4. The Ex Girlfriend 
    5. Everybody Is In Love 
    6. Take Em Down Charlie Brown 
    7. Ode To Coca-Cola 
    8. Love Song #7 
    9. Sweet Sister Delia 
    10. Can You Feel My Heart Beat 
    11. Waiting For Tomorrow

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  • The Loves 'Love You' - Cargo Records UK

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    ARTROCKER ALBUM OF THE MONTH.

    For Fans Of: The Beatles, The Stones, The Monkees, The Velvet Underground, Nuggets, Pocketbooks, The School, Still Flyin'. Revolver, Nevermind The Bollocks & Definitely Maybe -

    The Loves new LP ...Love You is shorter than all of these AND it's got a member of the Velvet Underground as the voice of Jesus on it! Formed in Cardiff in 2000, The Loves released their debut single on Radio One DJ Huw Stephens' Boobytrap Singles Club in May 2001.

    Their second album on Technicolor was made Album Of The Week in The Sunday Times. The band recorded four Peel sessions and have recorded nearly as many again for Marc Riley on BBC 6music.

    This, The Love's final LP before they call time on ten years at the top on Valentine's Day 2011, was recorded at Soup Studios underneath East London's Duke Of Uke shop, as were their last two albums Technicolour and Three. It was mixed and mastered by Rob Jones of The Voluntary Butler Scheme fame and is as shiny a pop record you will hear this year. Spector-ish lead single December Boy has a wall of backing vocals from Emma Hall of Pocketbooks and former Love (now head of The School) Liz Hunt.

    It was playlisted on BBC Radio 2 after winning Radcliffe & Maconie's Track Of The Week. Elswehere Nathaniel Mayer's 1966 soul single I Want Love and Affection (Not The House Of Correction) gets a Loves overhauling and made into a Merseybeat thing, while O! My Gawd features Mindy from the American group Still Flyin' on vocals in what is The Loves version of hip-hop. The Stones-y ballad I Lost My Doll To Rock'n'Roll and the Led Zeppelin rock of King Kong Blues show a harder side to the band. Doug Yule from The Velvet Underground is the voice of Jesus' answer-phone on It's¦The End Of The World to which producer Simon Trought contributes the Brian May harmony guitar solo at the end of the song.

    The LP closes with a cover of comedian Jake Yapp's The Very Stars Were Meant For Us. This is The Loves' final LP because¦just because. 'A wide-eyed retro-chic indie-pop sextet that sound like The Monkees playing at being The Velvet Underground.' ' NME

    Tracklisting:
    1. WTF? 
    2. Bubblegum 
    3. O! My Gawd 
    4. I Lost My Doll To Rock & Roll 
    5. That Boy Is Mine 
    6. I Want Love & Affection (Not The House Of Correction) 
    7. King Kong Blues 
    8. December Boy 
    9. It's... The End Of The World 
    10. The Very Stars Were Meant For Us

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  • The Loves 'December Boy / Bubblegum' - Cargo Records UK

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    Limited Edition (500) Double A-sided 7” Single on Bubblegum coloured vinyl.

    For Fans Of: The School, The Monkees, The Velvet Underground, Pocketbooks, Tender Trap.

    The new single by The Loves, "December Boy", is the first to be taken from their fourth and final album “…Love You”, and the first on which Jenna Love (The Loves' J-Lo) takes lead vocals.

    "December Boy", is the first single to be taken from their fourth and final album “…Love You”, and the first on which Jenna Love (The Loves' J-Lo) takes lead vocals.

    Recorded live at Soup Studios in London's glittering East End, it turns the chorus for "September Gurls" by Big Star into a Spector-esque girl group pop number, with help from Liz Hunt from The School and Emma Hall from Pocketbooks on backing vocals, as well as Rob Jones (AKA The Voluntary Butler Scheme) on organ. Real life violins also make an appearance.

    Flip-side "Bubblegum" is equally upbeat, but with more of a 60s garage Nuggets feel.

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  • The Loves 'xs and Os / She’ll Break Your Heart Again EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    This is the Loves’ new EP. Back from nowhere and ready to fill your ears. Lead number “Xs and Os” is a fuzzed up love song to a friend in trouble that’s equal measures T-Rex and The 1910 Fruitgum Company, while “She’ll Break Your Heart Again” is a new and far superior version of the B-side to their very first single, remade/remodelled by Andy Davidson of Cardiff’s Slow Graffiti to resemble a lost late 60s beat pop classic.

    Both tracks are taken from the forthcoming second Loves album “Technicolour”, recorded over the last 2 years at Soup Studios in London, eschewing the current trend for annoying high end staccato angular guitars and wonky elastic bass lines and instead aiming for a sound somewhere between “Headquarters”-era Monkees and The Velvet Underground.

    Also on the EP is a cover of Brazilian psychedelicists Os Mutantes’ “Nao Va Se Perder Por Ai”, resplendent with Muppet Show backing vox, and a new song recorded at home on 4-track “My Sweet Drunken Blues (For You)”.

    “Xs and Os is a singalonga slab of harmonic blues, but the real gem is She'll Break Your Heart… all Spector-ised, a huge wall of sound production engulfing soaring keys, military percussion, chimes and a terrific Louie Louie-esq 60s riff.” (SoundsXP)
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  • The Loves 'One-Two-Three EP' Vinyl 7

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    The Loves 'One-Two-Three EP' Vinyl 7"

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    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    One-Two-Three

    Side B:
    Chelsea Girl (2007)
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