Rhyme Report

Published on August 25th, 2015 | by Jameelah "Just Jay" Wilkerson

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Library Voices are back with a new album on Nevado! Unveil first single “Oh Donna”

Library Voices are back! Today they’ve announced their third and long-awaited album, Lovish alongside their lead single, “Oh Donna” which debuted with Consequence of Sound.

LISTEN / SHARE “OH DONNA” VIA SOUNDCLOUD HERE 

“Oh Donna is our stab at bastardizing classic rock. Brennan reached out with the skeleton of the song and said he wanted it to be thematically reminiscent of Lola, I’m A Boy, or Madame George. He suggested the name Donna and I spent the next few days lost inside my thoughts.”

Library Voices is a congregation of childhood friends who grew up on a steady diet of basement shows, science fiction, and mid-west sincerity. Their latest, Lovish, was once again recorded in an old funeral home and mixed by Dave Plowman and Alex Bonenfant (METZ, Crystal Castles, July Talk).

There was an extended period of time where it looked like Lovish would never see the light of day. Months of endless touring and exhaustion in support of Summer of Lust came to a boil late one night in the bowels of the saddest hostel in Amsterdam. The next day hundreds of rats swarmed their van in Paris. After those highlights the tour started to go south. The band returned home, decided they needed some space, and agreed to see other people.

(fast forward 24 months)

Soon after Library Voices regrouped to begin writing what would become Lovish, singer/guitarist Carl Johnson was jumped, beaten, and left unconscious in the street in a random act of violence. The attack resulted in blood pooling on the front of his brain, a severe concussion, an inability to smell bad odors, and a long road to recovery. For a few months it remained uncertain whether he would be able to continue writing and performing music. Johnson contributed 7 songs to the album, although he still can’t detect foul scents. The remaining four tracks, including the first single “Oh Donna” and the miserabilist anthem “Sunburnt In LA” are fronted by Brennan Ross.

The band, who once printed “Pop As Fuck” t-shirts, have upped the fuzz and upped the fidelity on Lovish. The spit and hiss of an old Space Echo and a busted up tape machine runs throughout the guitar-centric album. The 11 song affair opens with the line “All of your heroes, they’re all assholes/but that don’t mean you should piss on your dreams” and then continues to both French kiss and shit talk the present for the next forty minutes or so. The band’s lyricist/multi-instrumentalist Michael Dawson jokes that he believes the government started tapping his phone after writing a song about the Prime Minister’s daughter so this time around he sticks to the much simpler topic of love.

Stay tuned for U.S. fall tour dates!

Library Voices is:
Brennan Ross: vox / guitar / bass
Michael Thievin: drums
Carl Johnson: guitar / vox
Michael Dawson: keys / lyrics
Amanda Scandrett: keys
Paul Gutheil: Sax

Lovish
Library Voices
November 6, 2015

Nevado Music

1 – Oh Donna
2 – Sunburnt In LA
3 – Slacker
4 – Zzyzx
5 – Hey! Adrienne
6 – The Wild Roar Of Love
7 – Escape Artist
8 – Fangs of Love
9 – Death By Small Talk
10 – Bored In Berlin
11 – Every Night


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