Love Chants - Marigold b/w Wild and Blue 7"

When it rains it pours! After a decade of no new music, this is the third Love Chants release of the year (if you count the micro-run Live on Cockatoo Island cassette as well). Two more cuts of the kinda Love Chants you know and love!

Marigold centres around a kind of audio illusion conjured by Guerra and Zulicki, beginning with one guitar playing a set of four double stops and the other playing in unison before breaking off for a solo and a series of bends that cuts across the chord progression to modulate, a bit like the rubber band that wholes the package together. At least, that’s what I THINK is happening here, my music theory sits somewhere between rusty and non-existent. Whatever is going on, I can’t stop listening to it!!

Watching Love Chants at Nag Nag Nag last month I couldn’t help but think that that set was the most Crazy Horse leaning I’d seen them live. While I don’t think they played the B-Side of this record (Wild and Blue), it feels like the best demonstration of their approach even-looser-than-Crazy Horse shredding.

I realise that I haven’t said anything about Matt Earle’s drumming in this review yet, which is criminal considering he’s one of the best and most intuitive drummers going. Here he seems mysteriously lower in the mix, not in a crappy way, it just makes you wanna bury your ears deeper in the tracks to get even closer!
–Mitch