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If you like your indie-rock then Love Ends Disaster! may well make you happy. Geeky, noisy, melodic and, most importantly, good.
Here's just a few reviews they received for their debut EP, keep reading till you're bored. It's pretty much all positive.
See some of you there?
"The debut 5 track CD E.P. from Love Ends Disaster! has the same listening sensation we got when we heard the first Bloc Party 7". It's 5 sharp 3 minute bursts of post punk that recall the jangling guitars of the Postcard-era / The Wedding Present, the vocals of Pete Murphy from bauhaus, the melodies of the Psychedelic Furs and in track 5 they have the new 'Killing an Arab' for this generation. Within the year this band will be massive. We've not been wrong before." ROUGH TRADE
"Whoa. Love Ends Disaster! have recently been racking up good press by the boatload, drawing comparisons to The Fall and scenemates Bloc Party. While Stores for the Dislocated only offers a five song glimpse of the band, everything certainly seems to be in working order. This is exciting, angular, absolutely intense indie rock/post-punk stuff, taking major cues from Gang of Four. The songs are complex but incredibly melodic, making for a hip, cutting-edge sound. "Warning: Robots" introduces a certain epic feel that really works well for the band - I notice some Interpol in the vocals, as well. The tense energy of "TV" is a perfect example of what Love Ends Disaster! is about, though I prefer the spasmodic tunefulness of "Ginko Disco," which reminds me subtly of the French Kicks. Overall, I've found Stories for the Dislocated to be an extremely impressive EP from a bunch of guys I had never heard of before. If Love Ends Disaster! have the chops to create something like this, I can't imagine how incredible their debut album will be. 87%" Indieville USA
"Ladies and gentlemen let me give you the first GREAT single of 2005....
Twelve months is a short time in the history of a rock'n'roll group. This time last year Loughborough quintet Love Ends Disaster! were playing the sort of venues that would be ranked as being a step down from toilet status while the words 'tenacious', 'rabid' and 'potential' were being thrown about with scarce abandon.
Since that time they've hooked up with one-time Bloc Party producer Warren Bassett and the results are astounding. Live favourites 'TV' and 'Sendai' haven't just moved on from thier scratchy, Talking Heads chaffed beginnings, they've been smeared in Andy Gill's sweat and polished off with the thumbprints of 'Ladytron' - era Eno that proves boys in 2005 aren't just satisfied with plugging in and thrashing away, they actually want to dance as well, and even make you dance with them.
'Warning: Robots' has an eerie fairground slant reminiscent of Clinic while 'Ginko Disco' shows LED at thier most discordant, combining stringent riff chopping with the sweetest of 'ooh ooh' coos that'll make Jake Shears' hair curl.
In fact, every song on the E.P. could quite easily stand up as a single in its own right, and since Oasis' halcyon days of the mid-90s not many artists can claim to have matched quantity with quality. 4.5/5" DROWNED IN SOUND
"Working with Warren Bassett, who has previously worked with The Fall and Bloc Party, Love Ends Disaster have created a piece of work which will surely not be rivalled this year. Surely the band's two previous demos could not have been this good?
"TV" takes up where British Sea Power left off on their last album; Epic guitars and pulsating rythms leaving no stone unturned in their path. "Ginko Disco" is the track pulling in the plaudits if other reviews are anything to go by. However it's not even in "Sendai"'s class which is Interpol on acid and sears it's way past anything the NYC band have produced. The band tone it down for the Radiohead inspired "Little Lost Cause" and finish with the Gang Of Four/Postcard style "Warning: Robots".
To be honest any of these tracks could have been a lead single. It therefore makes me shudder to wonder what the band could bring out next. Move over Franz Ferdinand. Your boat has come in." SOUND XP
"As if that list of must have records isn't bulging enough here's another colossal debut with which to terrify the bejeezus out of your hi-fi with. 'Stories for the Dislocated' is the five-track debut from Nottingham based Love Ends Disaster and when we say that this mother is the best thing we've heard of this ilk since The Playwrights then you know it's the business.
Squalling spidery leads and hooks brazenly lifted from the hallowed resources of Andy Gill, Love Ends Disaster play a frenetic fusion of ausere angular art pop vs. post punk/new wavethat house subtle traces of math rock. From the quick tempo rifle like staccato guitar treatments that herald the arrival of the opening 'TV' your submerged immediately in an impenetrable wall of scathing riffs, thunderous bass lines and unflinching regimental drumming that rather than sounding like Gang of Four comes accross like a seriously pissed off Dinosaur JNR being fucked over by an early incarnation of Moose wanting to be Sonic Youth but instead not quite getting it finely tuned and instead appearing likea tamed but groovy Fugazi.
Pick of the bunch the eye watering bludgeon core 'Ginko Disco' is a caustic Saturday night floor filler with serios death disco undertones replete with an end of evening fist fight between Fire Engines and Josef K and deserves to be heard if only for its unadulterated and shameless Scars like searing hot to touch run out, killer stuff.
'Sendai' in any well ordered society is the sound of 2005, spiked and Spartan, up and at you wrestling menacingly with pnematic riffs that don't so much get under your skin but rather more peel it away under their searing target sights - think demonic Chameleons.
'Little Lost Causes' gives brief pause to draw breath for a spot of darkening Radiohead like intimacy while the rumble-tastic 'Warning: Robots' is a spine tingling all you need to know about Dale/Astro Man and Link Wray replete with a spanking spacey groove that at times veers towards the Jam's 'Strange Town'.
Preciously punishing stuff and a must for any record collection considering itself cool. Deputy single of the missive." LOSING TODAY
"Love Ends Disaster! “Stories For The Dislocated” (Denial Records) There are both curly hair and a Gibson SG involved, but apart from that this is one that goes off rather nicely. From the smartly moddish double back beat of “T.V” to the kind of Shadows go to Funky Town via The Clash ‘s own Westway. Between these stylish, if noisy bookends you get three other bits of sonic spiffery, “Ginko Disco” being one of them with it’s odd and watery computer vox n drums being attacked by a shoe-cleaning machine un the run from a nicely argumentative guitar and a bass line written with stalking in mind, it all ends up in a bit of frenzied fun and why not. They live, quietly and at peace in cyberspace at this address www.loveendsdisaster.co.uk visit as soon as you get a minute." UNPEELED
If you like your indie-rock then Love Ends Disaster! may well make you happy. Geeky, noisy, melodic and, most importantly, good.
Here's just a few reviews they received for their debut EP, keep reading till you're bored. It's pretty much all positive.
See some of you there?
"The debut 5 track CD E.P. from Love Ends Disaster! has the same listening sensation we got when we heard the first Bloc Party 7". It's 5 sharp 3 minute bursts of post punk that recall the jangling guitars of the Postcard-era / The Wedding Present, the vocals of Pete Murphy from bauhaus, the melodies of the Psychedelic Furs and in track 5 they have the new 'Killing an Arab' for this generation. Within the year this band will be massive. We've not been wrong before." ROUGH TRADE
"Whoa. Love Ends Disaster! have recently been racking up good press by the boatload, drawing comparisons to The Fall and scenemates Bloc Party. While Stores for the Dislocated only offers a five song glimpse of the band, everything certainly seems to be in working order. This is exciting, angular, absolutely intense indie rock/post-punk stuff, taking major cues from Gang of Four. The songs are complex but incredibly melodic, making for a hip, cutting-edge sound. "Warning: Robots" introduces a certain epic feel that really works well for the band - I notice some Interpol in the vocals, as well. The tense energy of "TV" is a perfect example of what Love Ends Disaster! is about, though I prefer the spasmodic tunefulness of "Ginko Disco," which reminds me subtly of the French Kicks. Overall, I've found Stories for the Dislocated to be an extremely impressive EP from a bunch of guys I had never heard of before. If Love Ends Disaster! have the chops to create something like this, I can't imagine how incredible their debut album will be. 87%" Indieville USA
"Ladies and gentlemen let me give you the first GREAT single of 2005....
Twelve months is a short time in the history of a rock'n'roll group. This time last year Loughborough quintet Love Ends Disaster! were playing the sort of venues that would be ranked as being a step down from toilet status while the words 'tenacious', 'rabid' and 'potential' were being thrown about with scarce abandon.
Since that time they've hooked up with one-time Bloc Party producer Warren Bassett and the results are astounding. Live favourites 'TV' and 'Sendai' haven't just moved on from thier scratchy, Talking Heads chaffed beginnings, they've been smeared in Andy Gill's sweat and polished off with the thumbprints of 'Ladytron' - era Eno that proves boys in 2005 aren't just satisfied with plugging in and thrashing away, they actually want to dance as well, and even make you dance with them.
'Warning: Robots' has an eerie fairground slant reminiscent of Clinic while 'Ginko Disco' shows LED at thier most discordant, combining stringent riff chopping with the sweetest of 'ooh ooh' coos that'll make Jake Shears' hair curl.
In fact, every song on the E.P. could quite easily stand up as a single in its own right, and since Oasis' halcyon days of the mid-90s not many artists can claim to have matched quantity with quality. 4.5/5" DROWNED IN SOUND
"Working with Warren Bassett, who has previously worked with The Fall and Bloc Party, Love Ends Disaster have created a piece of work which will surely not be rivalled this year. Surely the band's two previous demos could not have been this good?
"TV" takes up where British Sea Power left off on their last album; Epic guitars and pulsating rythms leaving no stone unturned in their path. "Ginko Disco" is the track pulling in the plaudits if other reviews are anything to go by. However it's not even in "Sendai"'s class which is Interpol on acid and sears it's way past anything the NYC band have produced. The band tone it down for the Radiohead inspired "Little Lost Cause" and finish with the Gang Of Four/Postcard style "Warning: Robots".
To be honest any of these tracks could have been a lead single. It therefore makes me shudder to wonder what the band could bring out next. Move over Franz Ferdinand. Your boat has come in." SOUND XP
"As if that list of must have records isn't bulging enough here's another colossal debut with which to terrify the bejeezus out of your hi-fi with. 'Stories for the Dislocated' is the five-track debut from Nottingham based Love Ends Disaster and when we say that this mother is the best thing we've heard of this ilk since The Playwrights then you know it's the business.
Squalling spidery leads and hooks brazenly lifted from the hallowed resources of Andy Gill, Love Ends Disaster play a frenetic fusion of ausere angular art pop vs. post punk/new wavethat house subtle traces of math rock. From the quick tempo rifle like staccato guitar treatments that herald the arrival of the opening 'TV' your submerged immediately in an impenetrable wall of scathing riffs, thunderous bass lines and unflinching regimental drumming that rather than sounding like Gang of Four comes accross like a seriously pissed off Dinosaur JNR being fucked over by an early incarnation of Moose wanting to be Sonic Youth but instead not quite getting it finely tuned and instead appearing likea tamed but groovy Fugazi.
Pick of the bunch the eye watering bludgeon core 'Ginko Disco' is a caustic Saturday night floor filler with serios death disco undertones replete with an end of evening fist fight between Fire Engines and Josef K and deserves to be heard if only for its unadulterated and shameless Scars like searing hot to touch run out, killer stuff.
'Sendai' in any well ordered society is the sound of 2005, spiked and Spartan, up and at you wrestling menacingly with pnematic riffs that don't so much get under your skin but rather more peel it away under their searing target sights - think demonic Chameleons.
'Little Lost Causes' gives brief pause to draw breath for a spot of darkening Radiohead like intimacy while the rumble-tastic 'Warning: Robots' is a spine tingling all you need to know about Dale/Astro Man and Link Wray replete with a spanking spacey groove that at times veers towards the Jam's 'Strange Town'.
Preciously punishing stuff and a must for any record collection considering itself cool. Deputy single of the missive." LOSING TODAY
"Love Ends Disaster! “Stories For The Dislocated” (Denial Records) There are both curly hair and a Gibson SG involved, but apart from that this is one that goes off rather nicely. From the smartly moddish double back beat of “T.V” to the kind of Shadows go to Funky Town via The Clash ‘s own Westway. Between these stylish, if noisy bookends you get three other bits of sonic spiffery, “Ginko Disco” being one of them with it’s odd and watery computer vox n drums being attacked by a shoe-cleaning machine un the run from a nicely argumentative guitar and a bass line written with stalking in mind, it all ends up in a bit of frenzied fun and why not. They live, quietly and at peace in cyberspace at this address www.loveendsdisaster.co.uk visit as soon as you get a minute." UNPEELED