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Love Is All - Mixed Up - mp3 review

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I was incredibly uncomfortable the other night for some reason.  I couldn’t quite pinpoint what exactly I was feeling though, much less why.  The feeling was akin to being stuck on a train and realizing I left the oven on.  Like there was something I was suppose to do, or something I wanted to do, but had forgotten.  I’ve been known to forgot to do simple things, like eating, while consumed with other activities (or not) so I tried going to the kitchen to peruse my cupboards for a snack, but nothing seemed to spark the desire to eat.  I thought, maybe I just need to relax, maybe I should take off my shoes.  When that didn’t help I thought maybe I should change my clothes.  I contemplated shaving my hair, I mean, if it worked for Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite it might be worth considering.  After about an hour sitting on my couch staring at my laptop screen, struggling to grasp whatever was embedded in my psyche causing my anxiety, I decided that the effort was futile.  The only way to get through this was to drown it in alcohol, so I walked to the liquor store and bought myself a bottle of wine.  After about 2 glasses, which did nothing but intensify the feeling 10 fold, it finally hit me, I just wanted a cigarette.
 
Love Is All is a Swedish indie pop/rock outfit featuring former members of sunshine twee pop Girlfrendo.  After the break up Josephine (vocals, keyboards), Nicholaus (guitar, vocals) and Markus (drums), Johan (bass) and Fredrik (saxophone) formed Love Is All, and debuted in 2006 with Nine Times That Same Song. They are currently signed to the New York-based indie label, What’s Your Rupture?, and are scheduled to release their sophomore LP spring 2008.  These tracks are from an upcoming remix album, ‘Love Is All..Mixed Up’, which features a selection of remixes infused with styles from Krautrock to Rave from many artist including The Bees, Hot Chip, Maps, Chicken Lips, Optimo, and many others.  Love Is All..Mixed Up is scheduled to be released here on 1/28/08.
 

felt_tip_(hot_chip_remix)
turn_the_radio_off_(maps_remix)
busy_doing_nothing_(tapedecic_remix)

-mark

16 Responses to “Love Is All - Mixed Up - mp3 review”

  1. sounds like just another melancholic/existential day

  2. I, on the other hand, woke up this morning and felt a weird emotion as
    well. Like something was missing. I couldn’t quite put my finger on
    it, but i felt the sudden urge to dance around my apartment in assless
    leather chaps. and now i have the music to do it to. thanks mark!

  3. From my students -

    Regarding Love Is All
    “That’s music?”
    “It reminds me of a movie with people running”
    “They suck. It’s the wackest music I ever heard!”
    “They better go’ead with the yoga gym with that….. or make music for screen savers for computers”
    “They took too long to do that switch thing”
    after the vox come in….
    “Oh, I really don’t like them now.”

  4. This band has wronged me simply by existing. I’d almost rather listen to
    contemporary R&B…

    Shouldn’t Home Land Security have stopped this from crossing the border?
    Stick with porn Sweden.

  5. these remixes are a little weak, but ‘9 Times That Same Song’ total destroys! and they are even better live! Everyone should definitely try to catch them when they come around.

  6. Dan and Andy are both right. I am a narcissistic loser, and ‘9 Times That Same Song’ is the junxt. Here are some tracks from that record:

    Busy Doing Nothing

    Ageing Had Never Been His Friend

    Make Out Fall Out Make Up

    -mark

  7. So I just finished my 2nd of 4 finals…and I have to come out to this? I agree with Scott’s students on this one, “they suck”. I think Trevor in assless chaps would be more entertaining.

    Lani

  8. i’ve always loved ‘aging had never been his friend’

  9. one cannot and should not exist on pixie stix alone. spazzing out on
    mexican dexatrim while clarence clemmons dootle-doots in the
    background can get old (sounds impossible, but true). sometimes you
    gotta sit the eff down with a hunk of beef jerky and reflect.

  10. i don’t get it…so i’m just gonna attach this cool frog

  11. that frog would be better if it was a LOLfrog. still awesome on its own.

  12. I love FROGS!

  13. ribbit

  14. Mmmmmmm Mmmmm good (see attached)

  15. All chaps are assless, that’s why they’re chaps.

    Just saying.

  16. I like turtles.

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