Praise for the 'loveletting' album

"Emotionally and musically eclectic and constantly pushes to a new headspace - there is no monotony here".

 

James McKenzie

In Ya Face

3CR

30/08/09: The Empress, Melbourne
The Tequila Mockingbirds, Loveletting and The Weeping Hearts, Courtney Barnett
 
Loveletting and The Weeping Hearts brought a mini orchestra of instruments to the stage and fumbled with them for a bit. I think I heard them mention this was one of their first shows performing as a band, and it sort of showed. Don’t get me wrong, the passion behind the music was so strong that I kept drifting off into it and spilling my beer on my jeans. Technically, it was all over the place, but I got the impression that’s what they were going for, so I went along with it and found myself pleasantly surprised. At one point an Ipod was plugged in to reveal a backing track that got a little out of hand. Imagine you are listening to the radio, and then someone turns on the stereo in the same room and puts a record in, and neither of you wants to turn off your own music to make way for the other persons, so you both sit there waiting for the other one to crack. That’s what a few of these songs sounded like. It reminded me of the kind of sounds I heard when I was in a coma once. Harmonies that went nowhere and then found themselves again in the corner of a party chewing on a chunk of drift wood. Droning melodica melodies. Repetition is the organ keyboard. I’ve never heard a drummer counting so hard in their own head before. Each instrument on its own would’ve been a minor catastrophe, but that’s the beauty of a band; everyone sounds terrible together and it turns out sounding ok. Add in the vocals; soaring PJ Harvey-ish attacks of wailing beauty, and you have a roaring rarity of a sound. It was all part of the Loveletting experience, a very interesting show.

Charlie Renegade