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01. Simon Love - Me And You
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02. Simon Love - I Will Dance
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03. Simon Love - The Fuck-Up
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04. Simon Love - North Road
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05. Simon Love - You're On Your Own
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06. Simon Love - Yvonne
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07. Simon Love - I Will Always Love You Anyway
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08. Simon Love - The Worst Way To Die
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09. Simon Love - L-O-T-H-A-R-I-O
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10. Simon Love - I Love Everybody In The Whole Wide World (Except You)
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11. Simon Love - Au Revoir My Dude
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12. Simon Love - Me And You (Reprise)
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ARTIST
LOVE, SIMON
TITLE
Love, Sex and Death etc
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TAPETE RECORDS
CATALOG #
TR 506CD
TR 506CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/10/2022
Following on from his 2018 album
Sincerely, S. Love x
(TR 406CD/LP), Tapete Records present
Simon Love
's new record
Love, Sex And Death Etc
. The 12 songs, written between 2017 and 2019 mostly, were recorded in two batches in July and November 2020 after being rehearsed for six months with the initial plan of recording them as live as possible all together in one room. Simon says, "Apart from COVID-19 and all the death and hand-washing, it was surprisingly the easiest album I think I've ever made! We were laser focused when it came to do these songs and it shows." Swinging from love songs ("Me And You" and "I Will Always Love You Anyway") to hate songs ("The Fuck-Up" and "I Love Everybody In The Whole Wide World (Except You)") through all points in-between, the centerpiece of the album is the nigh on seven-minute long pop epic "L-O-T-H-A-R-I-O". "That song started early one morning when a photo popped up on Facebook. I couldn't sleep and seeing it reminded me that it was taken the evening I almost had a one-night stand. I then wrote out a series of tweets about what happened (a lot happened) and originally, I thought it could be a poem to put on an album sleeve
Bob Dylan
style, but somebody replied saying, 'It sounds like a
Leonard Cohen
song' so instead it became a tune. I played it solo for the first time when we toured Europe in the autumn of 2018. It gave the band a much-needed toilet/drink/fag break in the set." The non-musical influences for this record include his wife, his son ("Au Revoir My Dude" written as a guide to life of sorts), the venal Conservative government ("I Will Dance" and "You're On Your Own"), ex-girlfriends ("North Road") and his inability to pick up on signals ("Yvonne") whereas musically Simon was aiming for (but not always hitting directly)
Nick Lowe
,
Kevin Ayers
,
Silver Jews
,
Ween
, and all the
Kinks
between 1971 and 1975. The title
Love, Sex And Death Etc
comes from the fact that every song mentions or references love, sex and/or death in the lyrics. That fact makes this a concept album but even though it's a concept album, there's no through line no direct narrative, so you can listen to it however you want.
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