Labels: Heroine Records
Review by: Chris Bress
Brutal noise through the post. This new CD from Italian hard rockers With Love is a very pleasant suprise.
Firstly the compact disc is packaged very well, the artwork is beautiful. Very similar to the Animal Collective artwork from the Carpark LP, photos of nature but colourfully distorted and added to.
The music is very hard and disjointed but still makes a lot of sense. They tend to use the basis of riffs/beats/screams but add a slight post-punk jerkiness to each piece, in fact some moments develop beyond their Arab on Radar-esque noise into almost King Crimson or Black Dice space work outs.
My only complaint is that on some of the later tracks where they go a lot more noisy and less straight-forward the vocals don’t really work that well (unlike the rest of this record). These minor setbacks don’t hurt the record too badly as they do tend to be at their best when the tracks are more song based (whilst still retaining maximum experimentalism).
Track it down – Check it out!