Joyful Noise is happy to announce today the signing of Kansas City's
best kept secret - a band known as 'I Love You'. The band self-released
their debut album "Drone, Drugs, and Harmony" in 2008, which was
championed by Alarm Magazine as "conceptually daring in both dance-punk
and art-rock" and was called "a welcome breath of fresh air" by Beyond
Race. Though "Drone, Drugs, and Harmony" definitely caught (and
confused) our ears, the bands second album
Bell Ord Forrest
left our jaws on the floor. These are twisted, slightly menacing, yet
somehow danceable tunes of indulgence and self-destruction. Their
combination of noisy DIY punk with thumpin' dub bass is catchier than
you think - conveying emotional depth, pop sensibility, and madness.
But mostly madness.
So, to further confuse the subject, there is something you should
understand about the band's moniker... “I Love You” is merely the
English translation of the “real” band name which is “Yah Tibyah La
Blu” (the phonetic Russian rendering of “I Love You”). Though the band
can be referred to by both names, "I Love You" has become the dominant
moniker (seemingly drunk people can't remember 'yah tube yah...what')