LoveLikeFire - Tear Ourselves Away
Label: Heist Or Hit
Release date: 24/08/2009 (Out now!)
Website: MySpace
Buy:Amazon
Remember that bit in Wayneâs World where they go to the bar and he sees Cassandra on stage for the first time? She totally wails, right? Well, thatâs the kind of experience you will have when you hear Ann Yu really open up for the first time. Her voice is incredible â big and bold, deep and rich, belting out lyrics like Amy Milan from Stars turned up to eleven. Itâs the main attraction of Tear Yourself Away, and reason enough to heap the band with praise, but itâs perhaps unfortunate that this is where most of the attention will likely go.
See, aside from just being a great singer, Yu is a fantastic songwriter and, helped by the flawless execution of her band mates, LoveLikeFire have pretty much perfected the sound that The Killers attempted with Hot Fuss but messed up by being just that bit too irritating. All it took was a little bit of Mewâs âstadium popâ scale and shades of the aforementioned Starsâ charm, and youâve got the ultimate ânu-indieâ (or whatever else weâre supposed to call it) record, a ready-made soundtrack to series three of The Inbetweeners and yet another band to vaguely compare to The Jesus And Mary Chain.
Fuzzy synths and jangly guitars, big pounding drums and jittery acoustic parts, whilst all the while well aware that their singer is their best feature, and hence pushing her right out front â youâve heard it all before, but honestly, never quite this good, and never quite this huge. There really isnât much more that I can say â highlights come in the form of already-released singles âStand In Your Shoesâ, âWilliamâ and âFrom A Towerâ, but everything else isnât that far behind in terms of straight up quality.
A great, 'genre defining' album. Just, well, donât expect anything new.
Rating: 7/10
Remember that bit in Wayneâs World where they go to the bar and he sees Cassandra on stage for the first time? She totally wails, right? Well, thatâs the kind of experience you will have when you hear Ann Yu really open up for the first time. Her voice is incredible â big and bold, deep and rich, belting out lyrics like Amy Milan from Stars turned up to eleven. Itâs the main attraction of Tear Yourself Away, and reason enough to heap the band with praise, but itâs perhaps unfortunate that this is where most of the attention will likely go.
See, aside from just being a great singer, Yu is a fantastic songwriter and, helped by the flawless execution of her band mates, LoveLikeFire have pretty much perfected the sound that The Killers attempted with Hot Fuss but messed up by being just that bit too irritating. All it took was a little bit of Mewâs âstadium popâ scale and shades of the aforementioned Starsâ charm, and youâve got the ultimate ânu-indieâ (or whatever else weâre supposed to call it) record, a ready-made soundtrack to series three of The Inbetweeners and yet another band to vaguely compare to The Jesus And Mary Chain.
Fuzzy synths and jangly guitars, big pounding drums and jittery acoustic parts, whilst all the while well aware that their singer is their best feature, and hence pushing her right out front â youâve heard it all before, but honestly, never quite this good, and never quite this huge. There really isnât much more that I can say â highlights come in the form of already-released singles âStand In Your Shoesâ, âWilliamâ and âFrom A Towerâ, but everything else isnât that far behind in terms of straight up quality.
A great, 'genre defining' album. Just, well, donât expect anything new.
Rating: 7/10
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