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Influences
We've lost our vitamin C and are living off of rain drops and repetition
Sounds Like
Yelling into the Grand Canyon, Three Ghosts Playing Music? Releases 12" split w/ Davan Six Trick Pony CD Drone, Drugs, and Harmony CD/Cassette
Featured on: Chomp Womp Comp Vol. One Lillerne Tape Comp '08
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We are a Pitch critic's choice this week... read about the glory that is us here.
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
Those three little words everyone says at one time or another inspired this band's name. Bizarro art-rork duo I Love You doesn't make music for lovers, though, unless we're talking about an affair between a masochistic physics professor and a pair of electric nipple clamps. Singer and guitarist Justin Randel begins the typical song by feeding strange, off-kilter guitar patterns into a loop pedal, then fires up a few other noisemakers contained in one of the several open briefcases at his feet. Gradually building a solid beat, drummer Jeff Schlette spins the noise confetti into a solid but shaky column of dance-inducing groove. Randel begins flying about, shaky his hips, whipping his long brown hair and shouting into the mic like a tweaking David Byrne, all the while playing remarkably clean lead riffs on his guitar. It's fun to watch in a half-empty bar; I can only imagine how righteously these guys would rock a crowded basement. -Jason Harper, Pitch Weekly (Kansas City)
Wisely realising that the commercial years of improvised music by bands with Russian names had passed, they quickly changed their name to I Love You, switched their instruments and stopped improvising. 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.-
“Ones to Watch for 2008,” The Devil has the Best Tuna (UK)
I Love You has evolved constantly since forming in the winter of 2005. They began as a noise trio called Yah Tibyah la Blu (“I Love You” in Russian) playing completely improvised music. After a few months of cacophony, the newly translated I Love You switched instruments around, started touring, and began writing the high energy but bittersweet Six Trick Pony EP (2006). After touring behind Six Trick Pony through the winter of 2007, the group took a break to write and record a second EP, Drone, Drugs and Harmony. More energetic than ever, I Love You’s music reflects the band members’ classical training and their love for punk rock, radio rap and African psychedelia.
I Love You has played with
45 Grave, Aids Wolf, Ad Astra Per Aspera, Castanets, Coat Party, Ghosty, Gowns, Heavy Winged,
I Heart Lung, Mahjongg, Mythical Beasts, Numbers, the Old Haunts, Old Time Relijun, the Pharmacy, Psychedelic Horseshit, Raccoo-oo-oon, Religious Knives, the Show is a Rainbow, the Ssion, This song is a Mess but so am I, These Are Powers, Usaisamonster, Wooden Wand
Live videos! Shot November 2, 2007 by punkcast.com at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY.
Thanks Joly!
hibiscus are special plants. the only way you will know they are okay is if you poke your finger in (to your second kuckle)and make sure they are wet. you don't want them to dry out but don't keep 'em too wet. ( insert all naughty thoughts here)
it means if you get an inch of h2o (rain)a week then it's okay. any less than that you will have to supplement. a rain gauge cost a buck at target. What kinda plant?
do you justin will grow up and look like elvis costello? i do which is gonna be rad...also drunk firework shooting in july in kc...ill be back just like my govenator said...love lafe
oh and it is a battlefield justin. a battlefield where fragile smoke flutters from the woes of heated barrels..... 'the front line is everywhere' -- Zach de la Rocha
oh man that would be sick do you know who i need to schmoose to get that done...ive got some kick ass charm...i mean i say kick ass! and use the word charm instead of dick sucking abbilities and i spell words with extra letters or missing ones...i drank a red bull...but yeah any reason to go bak to the land of oz would be good...send me some info please...and also also also guess what happens in july? y fire works with beer and me in your yard thats what...
its only a matter of time. then the highway grows dark. then the lights go on and the mics go out. texas love you. well, at least 2 or 3 texans. or more.
you know i knew that about the whole rainbow thing... did you know that it only happens in a certain part of the u.s. and that location is in golden gate park and its not the kind of dolphins and unicorns you see in the books...no sir it is not... it is two men dressed like them representing each animals distinctive clan...and its a bit disturbing when you catch them in the act in the bison cage...
you know in 1o years, when I get a DD from the Air Force, I am gonna go around living on the streets claiming to have been in i love you and no one is going to believe me
when you woke me up from my dream of mythic vaginas and dream monsters i heard this phrase but i didnt like hear it hear it untill right now but uhm yeah happy birthday monster pee pee... you should take those drawings and draw on them and then send me some and will call it a colaboration between ghost punchers and beer monglers searching for dream stealers in mythic vaginas in the weed forrest. i love you...i love you.
