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By: Mark Gomes
Article published: 7th Sep 09
What:
Nowhere Forever, Love of Diagrams
On:
Unstable Ape / Remote Control
Launch:
Fri Sept 11, 8.30pm at NSC. Tickets $12 +BF here
Win:
We have an album to give away! To enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'euphoric meltdown'
Love of Diagrams' third album gives more away of the band personally than we've heard before at the same time as burying their new, intimate sleights in virtuosic geyser-blasts of instrumental anaesthetics. This most beloved of Melbourne groups speak memories of cornerstone rock-reflective feelings - euphoric meltdown, blurred recognition, bottled emotions bursting as melody and time-warping, repetitive rhythms - of being literally 'Nowhere Forever'; caught in a mirrored room of tremolo and scourging self-knowing effacement; close as possible to wall-of-sound heaven.
Fans will be struck by a new breathiness in the group and a general move away from signature detached arrangements towards something more 'expressive' in general. Closing tracks 'All You Know' and 'Its Professional' are more directly gutting than anything we've heard from LOD before - their tight-to-snapping guitar lines and abstruse lyricism loosed to let in touches of Spiritualised - and 'On The Breeze' breaks into new, incredible Teenage Fanclub-on-psych-drugs territory. This is a wildly accomplished, generation-sealing Melbourne record.