VIDEO: The Love Language - Sparxxx
The Love Language has a breezy, hazy, lo-fi quality that's steadily addictive. Just a month or so ago, we first posted the jaunty surfpop jam "Lalita," which hooked us so bad that we decided to stream the whole album on RCRD LBL (see below), which in turn provoked us to find anything and everything else we could on this band. Hence this video "Sparxxx." Aesthetically gritty, the homespun video looks like it was shot on 35 mm film using a second-hand Super 8 Elmo or something else as beautifully ghetto. It includes a party scene with bubbles, Stu McLamb belting on a 1960's Elvis/Rocakbilly mic, brown-bagged 40s, and a cake fight. Need we say more?
*PS the streams below will only be up till the end of the week, so make the most of em.
Sounds Like: The Morning Benders, Bishop Allen, The Botticellis
The Love Language - Two Rabbits
DOWNLOAD: The Wave Pictures
Some songs are meant to sound like they were recorded in a washing machine, and the tunes we are releasing today by London three-piece The Wave Pictures are of that variety—deliciously lo-fi, living in a dimension where the quality (or lack thereof) of the tracks is directly proportional to the aspect of realness and sincerity the song conveys. Simply put: this is for real.
“Airplanes at Brescia” has a distinct ‘60s tinge to it, as if the Yardbirds had met up with Joe Meek in some London pub somewhere and decided to bang out a song in the men’s bathroom, while “Long Island” is dirty, dirty Britpop, which up until now sounded so oxymoronic we would have never fathomed its existence (the track also references “The Real Slim Shady”, need we say more?). The Wave Pictures have been gigging around the UK on and off for the past decade, but now with a recording deal with esteemed indie label Moshi Moshi, it looks like they may finally be poised to hit the big time, such as it were. We’ll be keeping our ears peeled for more tracks from them in the near, near future.
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