Search - Lovedrug :: Pretend You're Alive

Fascinating

D. Jorgenson | Bolckow, MO USA | 04/22/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I saw these guys live in Maryville, Mo. The vocal delivery is simply unique, although it does remind me somewhat of Filter, a similarity that I also heard on many of the heavier songs (especially Pandamoranda, which felt it could be lifted straight off Filter's Short Bus) but Lovedrug dips down into soft, acoustic performances with an ease and beauty of few bands. A certain gothic sensibility pervades the whole thing, as it drips with this cool, strange blackness.



So, I like their sound, and the lyrics have a compelling, Radiohead like weirdness to them, but in actual technical abilities I can't rate them in the top ten. Also, for me they got a little bit old once the novelty wore off."