LOVE IS ALL - Two Thousand And Ten Injuries

I admit to having just caught the bus on these guys, but it’s easy to develop a cautious armour of protection against buzz bands who fail to clinch the brass ring. Being from Sweden doesn’t hurt their hip factor, nor does their clearly dance-y post-punk aesthetic, but how unique is that alone these days?  Luckily for Love is All, they deliver the goods with bold interplay between guitar, bass and skronk sax, and, most prominently, the distinctive vocals of Josephine Olausson, who carves out her own niche beside such like-voiced singers as Poly Styrene, KatieJane Garside, Clare Grogan, and Annabella Lwin.  Yes, what stands out in Love Is All is the conviction with which they attack each song, and, listening back to their previous releases, they know better now when to ease of the intensity button and lay back a bit. So while “Early Warnings” and “Bigger Bolder” maintain their frenzied signature sound, “Kungen” amusingly references the Turtles, and “Take Your Time” closes the album with a theme based on Johann Pachelbel's “Canon in D”.