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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.All you need is love. It may or may not be all, but no band can do without it. Love – as expressed by fans via a tsunami of internet enthusiasm and a slavering industry reception at this year’s SXSW festival – has served this Swedish quintet well. It’s seen their debut album, Nine Times That Same Song – a collection of seven-inch singles to date (on hip US imprint What’s Your Rupture?) plus newer tracks – shift status from a must-have import in the UK to a full major-label release. Singer and keyboardist, Josephine Olausson, is still a little shell-shocked by the band’s rapid rise. “We’re not that young and we’ve never tried to become a successful band,” she says. “So when anything happens, it’s like winning the lottery. We’ve all given up our day jobs and do this full-time now, but because it’s going so well we keep thinking Alan Fundt from Candid Camera is going to appear and tell us it’s all a big joke.”  As if. Love Is All have nailed a winning combination of skronky art punk with yelping sax and tribal beats (think Bow Wow Wow, The Kleenex and X-Ray Spex) and sweeter, more buoyant pop (Altered Images, perhaps) that sets them apart from any current “scene”. Olausson explains their difference: “We don’t want to dress as a band, we don’t want haircuts as a band and we don’t all like one kind of music. We’re very much five individuals and that’s why the songs vary so much. On certain days, getting to our practice space in Gothenburg might be easy and that’s when we write the nicer songs, whereas if we get caught on the tram for not buying a ticket, that’s when we sound more shouty and angry. There is a lot of frustration and restlessness,” she adds. “And that’s there in the lyrics, as well as the sound.”  Do Love Is All feel as if they belong to the Swedish music community, if such a thing exists? “We’re not even a band in that sense,” laughs guitarist/vocalist Nicholaus Sparding. “We’re too poppy for Gothenburg – it’s rock city. Soundtrack Of Our Lives dominate.” However, both reckon there’s a lot to be said for provincial life. “Because Gothenburg is not the capital, not the cool city,” offers Olausson, “you can walk down the street and be yourself. We’re not cool. In many ways, we’re a bunch of fools.”
Sharon O'Connell
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song, released 03 July 06.
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comment by vincent_roccoforte
Jul 8, 2006
Busy Doing Nothing has got to be a contender for single of the year, it's unstoppable.Top band.
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