Love Is Chemicals
- "A disconcerting dream you've been having lately"
- Location: San Francisco, CA
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- Bio: Love is Chemicals formed in 2001 in San Francisco when singer/guitarist Nate Grover, tired of playing in bands that kept breaking up, convinced his wife Courtney to learn to ... (more)
- Bio: Love is Chemicals formed in 2001 in San Francisco when singer/guitarist Nate Grover, tired of playing in bands that kept breaking up, convinced his wife Courtney to learn to play bass. Soon joined by drummer Steve Galbraith (purloined from a neighboring joke-punk band) and guitarist Nick Mirov (answered a Craigslist ad), the band quickly bonded over a shared love of guitar-heavy '90s indie-rock such as Pavement, Built To Spill, and Sonic Youth. Their 2005 self-titled debut album found them shedding their more overt influences while retaining a similar scruffy, slightly spacy, noisy-but-still-heavily-melodic vibe.
With their second album Song of the Summer Youth Brigade, Love is Chemicals continues to extend and broaden their sound, marrying knotty, meandering guitars and shoegazer atmospherics to a songwriting sensibility informed equally by bright, tuneful west coast indie and moody Brit-pop. With invaluable assistance from producer Christian Hanlon (The Ebb & Flow, Unbunny, Kristin Mueller), the band has fashioned an album that is anthemic without being bombastic, dreamy without being lightweight, wistful without being twee, and noisy without being abrasive. (less)
