If anything, I can commend this band for giving me a hard time to form a consistent opinion on them.
When I got first emailed their single I thought it was a good indie rock song, and nothing more. I expected the album to be yet another boring instance of a band whose success will come from comparisons to other band. See: pretty much every indie rock album review that mentions a band's influences (which is damn near all of them). So I wrote a review like that last night. My thesis was Love Ends Disaster! are a talented band that sound like a lot of other talented bands. I still stand by that, but I was more cynical about it in my original draft.
There are a ton of ideas on display here, and too many to list all of them. "Knight Takes Queen" has some electronics, "Pigtails" is a minute-long song more frantic than any Johnny Foreigner track, and closer "Knight Takes Queen" is an obvious take on Beach Boys harmonies and SMiLE-like sound effects. (There are two different tracks titled "Knight Takes Queen.") None of these ideas are new, though. You're sure to find something you'll like on this album. Too bad the rest of it doesn't follow that up. Love Ends Disaster! are the millionth band in an age of Pandora, Last.fm, and other personalized music recommendations hoping to get fans by listeners saying, "Hey, these guys are cool like (band)."
City of Glass comes out July 26th.
Going to close on some conversation between me and PirateSquid about this:
[13:15] tom: so anyway I have mixed feelings about Love Ends Disaster!
[13:16] tom: Album really picks up in the second half, which totally caught me off guard while I was writing the review
[13:17] tom: I kinda think my positivity regarding them started when I first heard track nine and went "oh yes glockenspiel!"
[13:18] tom:http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster
[13:19] tom: all four of these songs on the myspace are better than the first single
[13:19] tom: especially "Killer Bombs"
[13:23] Gabe Penisington: I can't really make an opinion
[13:23] Gabe Penisington: it's like, at first I was "Eh"
[13:23] Gabe Penisington: then they added a cool part
[13:24] tom: yeah that's how i felt first time
[13:24] Gabe Penisington: so I'm at a loss of opinion
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: To be honest, this music seems humid
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: I don't know what that means
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: but when I think of this music
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: I think of being sweaty and uncomfortable
[13:16] tom: Album really picks up in the second half, which totally caught me off guard while I was writing the review
[13:17] tom: I kinda think my positivity regarding them started when I first heard track nine and went "oh yes glockenspiel!"
[13:18] tom:http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster
[13:19] tom: all four of these songs on the myspace are better than the first single
[13:19] tom: especially "Killer Bombs"
[13:23] Gabe Penisington: I can't really make an opinion
[13:23] Gabe Penisington: it's like, at first I was "Eh"
[13:23] Gabe Penisington: then they added a cool part
[13:24] tom: yeah that's how i felt first time
[13:24] Gabe Penisington: so I'm at a loss of opinion
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: To be honest, this music seems humid
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: I don't know what that means
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: but when I think of this music
[13:29] Gabe Penisington: I think of being sweaty and uncomfortable
[13:29] tom: the singer sounds like the guy from the world/inferno friendship society but british
[13:30] tom: I think how I feel about this band right now is how I felt about Los Campesinos! before I fell in love with them
[13:30] tom: moments of frantic brilliance and some creativity counterbalanced by meh midtempo sections
[13:31] tom: but eventually, Hold On Now Youngster became one of my favorite albums so if that's any indication of where this album is going I have to review it positively
[13:30] tom: I think how I feel about this band right now is how I felt about Los Campesinos! before I fell in love with them
[13:30] tom: moments of frantic brilliance and some creativity counterbalanced by meh midtempo sections
[13:31] tom: but eventually, Hold On Now Youngster became one of my favorite albums so if that's any indication of where this album is going I have to review it positively
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