Manhattan Love Suicides - Keep It Coming
by Anthony Strutt
published: 7 / 11 / 2007
Label:
Lost Music
Format: 7"
intro
Near perfect-sounding debut release on 7" from new label Lost Music and by the JAMC/Primitives-inspired Leeds quartet the Manhattan Love Suicides
Leeds-based group the Manhattan Love Suicides have released records on other labels, but this four song seven inch EP is the debut release of new UK-based label Lost Music. It opens with ‘Keep It Coming’ ,which instantly sounds like a winning combination of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Primitives. Singer Caroline’s vocals are like a female Jim Reid, while the tune’s rhythm sounds like ‘Some Candy Talking' speeded up. ‘Think It's Killing Me’ is like a faster ‘Darklands’, with Bobby Gillespie-style drumming and big sugar sweet vocals. ‘Head over Heel’ sounds like something which Jim and William Reid’s sister Linda’s band Sister Vanilla may have done until it speeds up in great C86 fashion. ‘Sitting Target’ has a feedback drenched intro and recalls the Primitives ‘Crash’, having a fast and thrashy but restrained sound. This is a near perfect cool release from this four piece.
Track Listing:-
1 Keep It Coming2 Thinking Is Killing Me (Seven Inch Version)
3 Head Over Heels
4 Sitting Target
most viewed articles
current edition
The Church - Interview with Steve KilbeySimon Heavisides - Destiny Stopped Screaming: The Life and Times of Adrian Borland
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - #15- On Being Dignified and Old aka Ten Tips From Jah Wobble On How To Be Happy.
Vetchinsky Settings - Interview
Jack Roscoe - Interview
Repomen - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...
Near Jazz Experience - Interview
Liam Gallagher and John Squire - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, 16/3/2024
Nico - Profile
Sami Sumner - Interview
most viewed reviews
current edition
Lewis 'Burner' Pugh - Bullets for BreadKula Shaker - Natural Magick
Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2: Fiction
David Cross Band - Ice Blue Silver Sky
Smalltown Tigers - Crush On You
Hillbilly Moon Explosion - Back in Time
Ty Segall - Three Bells
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
My Life Story - Loving You is Killing Me
Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow
Pennyblackmusic Regular Contributors
Adrian Janes
Amanda J. Window
Andrew Twambley
Anthony Dhanendran
Benjamin Howarth
Cila Warncke
Daniel Cressey
Darren Aston
Dastardly
Dave Goodwin
Denzil Watson
Dominic B. Simpson
Eoghan Lyng
Fiona Hutchings
Harry Sherriff
Helen Tipping
Jamie Rowland
John Clarkson
Julie Cruickshank
Kimberly Bright
Lisa Torem
Maarten Schiethart