Taking a listen to the second full-length by
Love Life
, it's quite easy to see that the band is no doubt the bastard child of
the VSS
and
Bauhaus
, with a grandparent who was involved heavily in the D.C. scene (think
Make-Up
kin, not
Minor Threat
).
Katrina Ford
's vocals have powerful range on this eight-song disc. She can go incredibly low and guttural and then suddenly sound serene. With the use of the circus-sounding organ, it's hard to take this album seriously in its entirety. Not that the effect of the organ is overdone, but combined with a woman who can sing deeper than most men and the album's general lack of accessibility to the average listener, this will no doubt fly over the heads of many underground music fans. And seeing as to how jaded
indie rock
kids would much rather make fun of something they don't understand than take the time to figure it out, this unfortunate pattern will most likely continue with
Here Is Night, Brothers, Here the Birds Burn
. On the flip side,
seems to have a good cult following and, with song titles like
"V"
"*"
(don't worry, not all the song titles are singular keys), certainly all the pseudo-
goth
fans will be digging this. ~ Kurt Morris