House of Love: unjustly neglected?

"Destroy The Heart" remains some kind of anaerobic peak - a high-altitude sprint through a sparkler factory. I love the way Chadwick shadows his vocal with a lower-register double.

both the 'christine' and 'destroy the heart' videos are wonderful in their simplicity. one is just a slow 360' pan around the studio as the band play. they open and close the first of those creation videos. http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=285903

N.'s disdain for the butterfly is just unfathomable.

I like reading the lyrics of 'In A Room', above: reminding me what a tremendous, little-known track that is.

I was going to mention how much I loved 'The Girl With The Loneliest Eyes' but I'm not sure I do anymore. The title is just too meh for me now.

Babe Rainbow was their masterpiece, terribly underappreciated in my book, and Audience With The Mind was only a tiny step below Rainbow for me. HoL got better with age, not worse.

Here's an interesting link about the Babe Rainbow painting:

http://www.belgraviagallery.com/DetailBP101.htm

I guess if there was any news on the reunion, someone would have already posted it here...

This past Sunday, the sun was shining here in London so I went to my local park with the Creation recordings comp to have a little lie-down. I had never really listened to the whole thing through and it was pure bliss. 'Love in Car' really hit me. Wonderful stuff.

"10th October
Work is almost complete on the bands new album. Recording is now finished and mixing is well under way. The band are hoping to release the album in early Spring."

Guy and Terry and I think Pete on drums - recording with Pat Collier who did the engineering on their Creation era releases!!! I'm very excited.

Yes, 'In A Room' is smashing: Tom E likes it? Cor.

http://www.artandindustry.co.uk/albums/dayssleeve.jpg

from NME.com:
Indie legends THE HOUSE OF LOVE are back after eleven years.

The band, who began life on Creation Records in 1988, release their first album since 1993’s ‘Audience With The Mind’ on February 28.

‘Days Run Away’ will be preceded by a single, ‘Love You Too Much’, on Valentine’s Day through Art And Industry Records.

The band, which sees mainman Guy Chadwick reunited with original guitarist Terry Bickers and original drummer Pete Evans, play London ICA on February 10. More dates are expected.

The album tracklisting is:

’Love You Too Much’
’Gotta Be That Way’
'Maybe You Know’
’Kinda Love’
’Money And Time’
'Days Run Away’
'Already Gone’
’Wheels’
’Kit Carter’
’Anyday I Want’

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-House-of-Love-She-Paints-Words-in-Red.jpg

The brand-new album from The House of Love will be titled She Paints Words in Red and is expected to be released in March or April on Cherry Red Records, according to an announcement on the band’s Facebook page that also revealed the cover art for the group’s second post-reunion effort and fifth record overall.

Last week, the House of Love’s page made the surprise revelation that a new album had been completed and delivered “fully mastered and mixed.” A firm release date for She Paints Words in Red has not yet been set, nor has a tracklist been revealed.

The current House of Love lineup features original members Guy Chadwick (vocals, guitar), Terry Bickers (guitar) and Pete Evans (drums), plus new(er) bassist Matt Jury. That lineup recorded and released Days Run Away in 2005 and has toured sporadically in the intervening years, playing, most recently, its only 2012 concert at a festival in Poland last summer.

is it my imagination or is this new HoL album a staggeringly dull piece of work?

reading between the lines thats kinda what the mojo review said.
shame as i thought 'days run away' was not half bad ...