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The Lovemakers
Let's Be Friends
Talking House
"All the kids will hate what we've become," sings The Lovemakers' Scott Blonde on his band's new album Let's Be Friends. Fat chance. Let's Be Friends is such a lustrous batch of shimmering pop, twitchy new wave and groove-laden indie rock, it's hard to imagine the kids—let alone anyone—not being on board. "See What I Wanna See" summons the new wave soul of the Tom Tom Club; "Love Is Dead" is a soaring pop number with a massive right hook and the devilish stomp of "Everyone's Fightin' The Same Damn Fight" sounds like an inspired conflation of Adam and the Ants' "Stand And Deliver" and The Polecats' "Make A Circuit With Me." Elsewhere, "Wanna Go Back" is a sonic reference to The Ramones; "All Together" is a furious robotic stomp and the album closer "Tears You Apart" is a big, fuzzy elegy about heartbreak. Blonde and Lisa Light sing together like Buckingham and Nicks and like the legendary Fleetwood Mac alums, The Lovemakers' singers have the same storied and difficult past. But breakups aside, Light and Blonde's professional relationship thankfully remains intact, and the result is a batch of stunning pop songs, loaded with delicious layers of violins, tribal drums and coats of harmonies.
—Alex Green
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