Love Is Chemicals: Song Of The Summer Youth Brigade

Love Is Chemicals
Song Of The Summer Youth Brigade
New Earth Objects [2008]







Fire Note Says: What seems like out of nowhere - Love Is Chemicals makes great sophomore record!

Album Review:
Do you remember San Francisco’s Love Is Chemicals self titled debut record in 2005? Me neither so it was a pleasant surprise to discover their sophomore record Song Of Summer Youth Brigade and its grab your attention ability, which for sure will shoot up our final best of list in 2008. It all starts with the one/two punch of the upbeat "Our Darkest Days And Nights" and straight ahead indie pop with "Let Me Come Down”. These two songs latch onto your ear and spike your interest while funneling you into the rest of the record that ebbs and flows into moments of shoegaze, west coast sun and smooth Brit-pop. Love Is Chemicals even closes the album with slow burning rockers "Roads Lead Underground" and "The Drift” just to make sure that as many genres as possible get some attention. All of these elements make Song Of Summer Youth Brigade a great indie record and I guarantee that if you place it into a shuffle playlist all your friends are going to be asking “Who is that?” when a Love is Chemicals track hits the speakers – that should tell you all you need to know right there!

Key Tracks: "Let Me Come Down", "Our Darkest Days And Nights", "Meet Me On The Tarmac"

Bands With Similar Fire:
The Dandy Warhols
Death Cab For Cutie
Built To Spill

Our Darkest Days And Nights (mp3)
Over Land Over Sea (mp3)
The Blossom & The Butterfly (mp3)

Official Love Is Chemicals Website
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-Reviewed by Sam DaMatta