"People Who Know love The Loves because they have a pick ‘n’ mix feel for all that is good on the great sweetie stall of popular song, slyly cramming handfuls of the tastiest treats into the secret pockets of their vintage overcoats" www.kittenpainting.co.uk
"The Loves are pure pop poetry in motion. Embrace them soon, if it's the last thing you do" www.musicomh.com
"Few bands have done the indiepop thing so well and so literally in recent years, with such knowing humour and melodic mischief, and The Loves are seemingly getting better and better at it" www.miwsig.co.uk
"I'm pleased bands like this are still mucking about doing what they like. Cock on" www.normanrecords.com
"The Loves remind us that the three-minute pop song can be a very simple, uncomplicated joy" www.popmatters.com
"Seven years and (at last estimate) 25 members after Simon Love founded the band, he and the current line up have crafted a collection of pop gems" www.rockfeedback.com
"The Loves are a musical trebuchet and with this album they’ve armed themselves with hooks so potent they could slay the Magic Numbers and the View within a day and lay siege to the top 10 this time next week" www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk
"I’ll take more of The Loves, happily, as long as they don’t get too clever or try to get too good" www.music-reviewer.com
"How can you not love The Loves??" fatandconfused.livejournal.com
"Would give a wispy hard-on to Andy Warhol's ghost" www.soundsxp.com
"One has to wonder why the likes of The Loves are not huge popstars when the music industry falls over themselves to give us the download today gone tomorrow pop stars fresh from the conveyor belt world of reality tv. Capitalism eh?" www.indie-mp3.co.uk
"The Loves come from Wales, Cardiff I think. That's a shame…..Not that there's anything wrong with coming from Wales! It's just that I think that, had they been from South of the Watford gap, You'd already know who The Loves are. The Loves are fuckin brilliant!" www.myspace.com/the_end_fanzine
"The band claim to have looked for the middle ground between the Monkess and the Velvet Underground, and, incredibly, they've found it" The Sunday Times
"The playful sixties pop sounds of the likes of The Monkees blended with the noisy more garage rock sounds of early Velvet Underground and at times sounds like a sixties bubblegum pop version of Galaxie 500" www.roadrecs.com
"The Loves are maybe THE proof, apart from the Brian Jonestown Massacre galaxy, that our era has now got something inherited from the Sixties that it can take into the future" www.bside-rock.com
"The Loves are a band I'm not overly familiar with, but by 'eck, I'm going a get familiar with this band because they are great" www.sohostrut.co.uk
"They sing about love mainly; sound like The Ramones, The Beatles and Weezer and are goddamned brilliant at what they do" www.mapsmagazine.co.uk
"The Loves are The Fall of the Cardiff indiescene" www.gigwise.co.uk
"The Loves are slightly off-centre in their unabashed recreation of Sixties pop" Plan B Magazine
"The Loves are a slinky, sleek (but not too sleek) conflagration from the garage underground with laser beams aimed at your heart" www.tangents.co.uk
"The best band from Cardiff ever" The Cribs, whenever they play Cardiff
"Frontman Simon Love camps it up throughout, with his nasal-sounding voice out-wimping that of Bobby Gillespie" James McNair, Q Magazine
"Mediocre jangle pop band" God Is In The TV
"The Loves write truly irresistible pop" Logo Magazine
"The Loves combine a devotion to old-school NYC cool with a distinctively british indie feyness" Sleaze Magazine
The Loves started in 2000 & since then have had over 30 members come & go through their ranks.
Their first release was the 2001 Boobytrap Singles Club double A side “Little Girl Blues” & “She’ll Break Your Heart”. It was highly praised & reached the Indie Top 20. Number 13 with a bullet.
Their next few releases (2 singles, an EP & their 1st album “Love” put out between September 2001 & April 2004) were on the highly acclaimed London indie label, Track & Field.
It was during this time that the group became friendly with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This friendship meant that in 2002 the group went & performed at the CMJ Music festival in New York. Since 2003 however, Karen O hasn’t been returning their calls.
Also around this era, The Loves recorded 4 sessions for John Peel including one live from Peel Acres on Valentine’s Day 2002 at which the band were fed heart shaped pizzas. Since 2004 however, John Peel hasn’t been returning their calls.
2004 saw the release of “Love” The Loves’ first LP & also the break-up of the first totally solid line-up.
After starting to record the second LP “Technicolour” in 2004 alone, Simon Love finally saw it finished in 2006 & great praise was heaped upon it when it came out in 2007 on the Fortuna Pop label.
It was preceeded by the single "Xs & Os" that Mark Radcliffe called "Perfect pop music" on his Radio 2 show. Marc Riley agreed with him & he got us in to do a session for his 6 Music show.
The Sunday Times’ made "Technicolour" it's LP of the Week in February 2007…yeah, look impressed.
Since then The Loves have been cementing their reputation as an amazing live band with a tendency towards mental illness & self destruction & have played many shows all over the country including the Tate Liverpool for their 20th birthday celebrations & numerous support dates for acts such as Darren Hayman, Los Campesinos, Pop Levi, Friends Of The Bride, Piney Gir & The Hot Puppies.
Their 3rd LP, called “Three” will be out on Fortuna Pop in April 2009.
If you'd like to contact us email- theloves@hotmail.co.uk
Our EP "One-Two-Three is OUT NOW
See this advert
This is the video for "Xs And Os" from "Technicolour" by Ryan Owen...
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This is us LIVE playing the forthcoming single "The Ex-Gurlfriend" at the Tate Liverpool May 2008
On this page you can hear some new(ish) songs but you can hear songs off our 1st LP "Love" here-
http://www.myspace.com/theloveslovelp
& you can buy it & the 7" singles "Boom-A-Bang-Bang-Bang", "Just Like Bobby D" & "Shake Yr Bones" here-
http://www.trackandfield.org.uk
You can hear songs off our 2nd LP "Technicolour" (that was The Sunday Times LP of the week in February 2007 folks) here-
http://www.myspace.com/thelovestechnicolourlp
& you can buy it & the & the 7" singles "Xs & Os" & "One-Two-Three" here
http://www.fortunapop.com
And finally Esther, you can hear our John Peel sessions from back in the day here-
"One-Two-Three" on my radio show, The British Breakfast on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA and streamed live on www.wrir.org between 9-11EST which is 2-4PM UK time this Saturday!
Alright guys cheers for the add! liking the tunes (: hope all is well your end? Would be lovely if you could check out my stuff at some time or other...thanks! xx
The new album is FAB!!! Each album of yours builds on the last but this one is the most complete and accomplished. Musically it's gone up a gear on this album. Kaleidoscope is great, the way it changes pace about five times. The cover of You don't have to is as good as the original. Ode to Coca-cola makes me laugh (in a good way). Love song #7 is exceptionally good as is Waiting for tomorrow (the music behind the vocals on these two tracks is spot on). Good work guys XXX
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