Love, Hate and Then There's You

Love, Hate and Then There's You

These Detroit garage rockers took five years and a line-up shuffle before returning to the game. The infectious single "C'mon, C'mon," from their previous album, 2004's Pawn Shoppe Heart, became the theme for TV's Rescue Me program. The kinetic energy that made that song such a resonating hit can be heard in slightly modified form throughout their 2009 offering, the aptly confrontationally titled Love, Hate and Then There's You. This is garage rock with as many roots in '80s post-punk as '60s psych. "This Is Our Perfect Crime" begins things with that ominous sense of tension that expands to even greater effect for "Pale Bride" where the band's vocals do battle with the spiky guitars that threaten to derail at any moment. Yet, the band's pop sense never lets anything get too out of hand. They like melodies. Whether it's the mock Goth-whine of "Only to Haunt You," the churning swoop of “21st Birthday" or the tattletale 'nah-nahs" of "She's Dead to Me," the band never shies from the catchy chorus.

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