NOW OUT IN THE US!! The Loves are a band with a clear mission statement - to recreate
what they evidently see as a golden bygone age of pop. Technicolour still
offers retro appeal and bucket-loads of fizzy fun. We`re talking The
Monkees, upbeat, but not too hippy sunshine pop bands from 1967/68, poppy
Velvet Underground, Beach Boys(you know what album) and, in a more modern
context, The Polyphonic Spree. Very Rainbow Quartz-y in many spots, too. "
As its final chords melt you open your eyes to find yourself firmly
ensconced in The Loves` Technicolour world, one in which songs whisk in,
swirl about deliciously, then are gone, leaving you blinking.`Technicolour`
takes Velvety six-stringed caresses, sugar-rush garage pop, swinging Ye Ye
girlyness and growly Nuggets blues and bakes them according to The Loves
secret sweetie-beat recipe. It`s a sugar high of a trip. There`s the
careening, all hands on deck organ wig-out of `I My She Love You` (a cute
vocal nod to De La Soul`s `Me, Myself and I`?), the elaborate skanking,
Spectoresque confection that is `She`ll Break Your HeartÂ…Again`, Eddie
Cochrane candyfloss topped with knowing Birkinesque breathiness on `Honey`,
and `Summertime` a lip-smacking slice of girls in the garage bubblegum which
is the louchely breezy sound of out-of-control-picnics and laughing at the
colours in the park. Outer space spangly noises usher in `How Does it Feel
To Be Loved`, a psyche-baroque wonder that conjures Brian Wilson on a
merry-go-round. In Paris. In the springtime. It`s so very short and sweet
that it can`t fail to be anything but perfect. Simon Love`s magpie knack of
plucking the tastiest, juiciest titbits from pop history remains
immaculately intact. A Rita Lee quote on the album cover tells it how it is,
"We`ve heard it all and we`ve used it all." Sweet!"-KittenPainting.
" From the bouncy early rock `n` roll guitar of `I My She Love You` to the
Beach Boys-style backing vocals on `How Does It Feel To Be Loved?`,
Technicolour is full of moments of startling deja-vu. This approach is
always going to be a delicate balancing act between songs so classic you
can`t believe they weren`t written years ago and a bored sense of
heard-it-all-before, but, for the most part, The Loves manage to stay on the
right side of the line. Besides, with such summery guitars and bubble-gum
pop keyboards, it seems downright curmudgeonly to grouch on about whether or
not they have anything original to say about the music they so gleefully
ape. The best of the bunch is `Xs and Os`, a sun-drenched slice of poppy
fun, designed to charm a smile onto your face, while the sing-along,
multi-instrumental chorus of `(Gimme Gimme) The Good Times` has a hint of
The Polyphonic Spree about it."-TinyVoices.
 XS And Os - mp3
Honey - mp3
Summertime - mp3
I My She Loves You - mp3 |
