House of Love: unjustly neglected?

"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’

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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 ...

A band that, by all logic, going by my established taste, I should love.

And yet, every time I hear them, it's just uneventful.

And I've tried at least three times, wholeheartedly to appreciate them.

Alas, no.

I thought Days Run Away was great. This new one is not as good.

I thought Days Run Away was great. This new one is not as good.

i agree. there was easily half a classic album there ..

and reading between the ever so polite review in mojo recently, i kinda guessed re the new one.

shame.

oh look, i'm repeating myself ..

I quite like the new one.

So I took a little look back...

http://thequietus.com/articles/13828-the-house-of-love-debut-album

i noticed that! looking forward to reading it later

I saw them (25 after I last saw them) last week at the Lexington in Islington - they were terrific.

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25 years, that is.

Only ever saw them play just once back in 1987 when they supported the Mighty Lemon Drops at Southampton Uni - it was just after the release of Shine On the first time round and they still had Andrea in the band (had heard the single on John Peel a few nights before). They were pretty good but I really wished I'd managed to catch them a bit later on too.

Only saw them the once on a US tour opening for Peter Murphy in 1990, so Bickers was already out -- still a good show, though, and I know a lot of folks there for PM who became fans afterward.

I still think that the shows of theirs I saw in 1988 were among the best I've ever seen.

Interviewed them last year. Chadwick is a very prickly fella.

I must be listening to the butterfly album for 25 years now and it never grows old. I cant understand the complaints (besides the odd crap lyric, perhaps) about it upthread

I never dug "Babe Rainbow" tho except for "Feel"