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Nine Times That Same Song

By: Jan Bunny
Date: 14th Dec 05
Release: Album
To Cure: A broken heart

Love, or rather, the word love, was sullied by highschool. It was a time when people started feeling hot and bothered. A time when we first confessed love – or, perhaps, the first time we were crass enough to start spelling it “L-U-V”, calculate ‘luv percentages’ and tag school desks with our crush’s initials inside bulbous hearts.

Sweden’s Love Is All are as full of indie pop beans as high school kids are full of hormones, and Nine Times That Same Song is a delightfully precocious debut. "Make Out Fall Out Make Up" is like the Polyphonic Spree at the disco, having a dance floor quarrel with the kids from Annie and "Turn the TV Off" is like The Smiths "This Charming Man"dipped in a love drug.

But one of the real treats on this album is "Talk Talk Talk Talk", schizo sax solos and maniacal shouting reminiscent of Karen O’s Rich effort – the only thing missing is the car chase.

Love Is All remind us that love is as sucky as it is sweet, and the only thing to do when you’re heartbroken or lusty as hell, is scream and shout.