New Music From Love Is All
Love Is All wants all of your wishes to come true.
You know that feeling teenage girls get when they throw slumber parties? If you'd like a better understanding please refer to the opening scenes of seminal 80's film Valley Girl. "Wishing Well," the latest single from Scandinavian quartet Love Is All, sort of plays out like that. Twenty pigtails swinging to the beat, pink pajamas stained with grape soda, Cool Ranch Doritos and an empty bottle of Adderall - yeah, you get the picture.
Part surf rock stomper, part riot girl anthem, "Wishing Well" is the latest single from Love Is All's second album A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night. Front woman Josephine Olausson desperation and heartbreak makes for a great two and half minutes of mindless bouncy fun. The "Tally Ho" Farfisa keyboards and reverb tanked guitars is just the icing on this Swedish cake. Much like X-Ray Spex before them, Love Is All has the ability to make annoyance into something you can dance to. Seldom do those "wishing well" wishes come true, but it's still somewhat pretty to see all that metal sparkle under rusty water.
Posted by Joe Roth on Nov 26, 2008 @ 7:00 am