All Pleasure - Vinyle Argent

Description

In the age of streaming platforms and social media, it’s easy to be stimulated. True pleasure, however, the kind that nourishes our soul instead of draining it, is scandalously rare. Thus Love’s sophomore album is overflowing with that nourishing kind of euphoria. It swoons, shakes, and shimmies with a combination of grit and sensuality that’s been difficult to find in music lately. It’s fittingly titled All Pleasure. When they started working on it, they were still reeling from the runaway success of their 2022 debut, Memorial—a lush, elegant set of post-punk that garnered widespread critical acclaim. What emerged is a stunningly beautiful record, full of big arcing melodies and twisted stylistic turns that will surprise listeners who only know the band for Memorial’s chorus-drenched, 80s psych. The eponymous title track pays homage to the power of joyful creation. For fans of Fontaines DC, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Supergrass, The White Stripes, Dry Cleaning, Wet Leg, IDLES.