Helen Love: Some Fucking Love Songs EP
(Precious Recordings Of London)
Ltd 7” / Digital
Out Now
Hey hey it’s Helen Love! Precious Recordings Of London sneak out a limited 7” featuring four brand new tracks from the Welsh legends.
Described as ‘four slices of pure Helen for the romantic souls among us’ the Some Fucking Love Songs EP arrives somewhat out of the blue. It’s been four years since the last ‘proper’ album, This is My World, although there have been an ‘outtakes’ release, a compilation and a legendary Steve Lamacq session from 1998 which features a great version of The Clash’s Tommy Gun, in the intervening years.
This new release has a Northern Soul feel to it, Love explaining, “I’ve always loved Northern Soul music, and I’m always buying compilation albums and finding great lost 45s that are just incredible”, but despite that influence, Love makes it her own.
She may have been releasing records for more than 30 years but there is no sign of the quality diminishing, this EP being up there with anything that’s gone before. Each of the tracks on this release will make you want to make you move and clap your hands… even when there aren’t supposed to be any! And I’m saying that as a self-confessed occasional foot tapper, or at best shuffler…
What never ceases to amaze me is Love’s ability to practically overload the senses with the sound of what you’d think is a 20 piece orchestra but in reality, is an intricately considered and layered production that delivers a set of kitchen sink vignettes with a quick danceable tempo and heavy 4 x 4 beats.
Once you get this on your turntable you won’t be taking it off for a while… I could go on but honestly sometimes things don’t need to be overanalysed they just need to be listened to…
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