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The sense of legitimate, fresh tinkering-for-the-sake-of-tinkering and corner-of-the-sandbox fun here is genuine-Tiny Mix Tapes
Kansas City’s best kept secret is a band that creates music that is good. Quite good, in fact, and a welcome breath of fresh air in an independent music scene dominated by musicians situated on either coast. The band’s latest album, Drone,
Drugs, and Harmony, is a triumphant battle cry, an enthusiastic amalgamation of influences ranging from late-Talking Heads to African pop and post-punk. Beyond Race
On their MySpace page I LOVE YOU call themselves “Kansas City, Missouri’s best-kept secret,” and it’s true: they’re a fantastic band, but they’re virtual unknowns outside the basement-and-party circuit where they’ve been rocking faces. They started out as an improvising noise-jam unit, and though you can hear hints of that past in their anxious unhits—there’s lots of sonic space and rambunctious discord—these days they play a strange, sweet-and-sour flavor of dance music. On their second EP, the self-released Drone, Drugs and Harmony, the guitars moan and chatter, swimming in reverb, and loud, harsh notes jut out of the cyclical melodies, which mutate and expand with charming imprecision. “March of the Dead” proposes a wondrously busy and rumpled version of dub—loose but euphonic clang chugs along beneath distant-sounding whoops and yelps, and the loudest thing in the mix is bass. Holding this shambling business together is the band’s palpable kid energy, a visceral us-against-the-world excitement that practically bleeds from the cassette. —Jessica Hopper, Chicago Reader
I Love You Drone, Drugs, and Harmony signals a turn for the conceptually daring in both dance-punk and art-rock; I’ve never had so much fun listening to a band’s reach exceeding its grasp. -Alarm Magazine
'the title says it all, folks. Pass the Dutchie.' -Ghettoblaster Magazine
In some sort of punk zombie alternative future, I Love You rise from their makeshift graves to entertain rather than eat brain. The song is “March of The Dead” from their amusingly titled album Drone, Drugs, and Harmony. Listening to the track it seems the band has engaged in all three. At points the singer almost sounds like Ian Curtis’ younger brother with a slightly higher voice. The guitar work is both straightforward and layered with bits of feedback peeking out from behind the curtain. If music is, in part, about creating imagery through sound, this song definitely does a good job of creating the image of a bunch (group, gaggle?) of zombies on the march, periodically stopping to do a little zombie dancing. It’s at once a little creepy and a good listen sure to have you saying,” I Love You, I love you.” Stereo Subversion
The album title is a better description than I could ever give. I must admit to being a bit smitten. Aiding & Abetting
The resulting nihilistically quirky discordant drone pop, all angular melodies a la early Liars and harmonic dissonance a la Pavement, has cult written all over them. I Love You may be the best thing to come out of Kansas since the Yellow Brick Road.-
The Devil has the Best Tuna (UK)
Formerly a trio, ILY are now a drum-guitar duo. Seeing them live it was clear what had intrigued me in the first place, and that is the atmospheric combination of quasi-steppers rhythms with noise-rock cut and slash. -Joly, punkcast.com (NYC) Releases 12" split w/ Davan Six Trick Pony CD (SOLDOUT) Drone, Drugs, and Harmony CD/Cassette (Cassettes SOLDOUT)
The band lives and rehearses in an abandoned storefront in Kansas City, Missouri, "The Paris of the Plains." 'I Love You' will cease to exist on December 12th, 2012 when the world is destroyed.
LIVE VIDEOS! Shot November 2, 2007 by punkcast.com at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY.
CHOMP WOMP SODA FEST FRIDAY JUNE 19TH THE PISTOL/FOUNDATION 1219 UNION (WEST BOTTOMS) KCMO
HIGH DIVING PONIES BURGER KINGDOM ROOFTOP VIGILANTES BOO AND BOO TOO FORTUNING BLEACHBLOODZ GOODWILLIES WRONG CROWD! THE CALAMITY CUBES SPELL MASTER THE FACTORY WORKERS DEMON HORSE ECHO OF THE ELMS NONRETURNER
eh, a lot of weird shit happening. really random shows for random people. some sad sorry moments. some very aweomse moments. met a ton of cool people. me and davitt hate'n on each other. roller coaster of fun. it was a blast. now i'm in philly have'n the time of my life, gettin arrested, maxin and relaxin... me and davitt told a ton of people about i love you. one of the best performances we saw all tour.
thanks man. hopefully the record will come out alright what have you been up to, by the way. i've been a real dick about keeping in contact with my favorite band/dude from kansas city.
so you must stay for a few days when you come back this way. we will go tubing on the river and jump off a big rock. i'll let you shove wood in the stove even though it'll probably be 90 degrees outside
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