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Album Review

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love
Ends Of June Other Electricities

Article written by James S - May 28, 2007

And, lo, another band did appear whose name began with the letters �lo�. Having already reviewed Low, Loney Dear and Lonely Boy over the past month or so, I appear to have cornered the market in marketing this particular corner of the dictionary.

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love - and I�m not typing it again no matter how good a name it is - hail from around Manchester but you�d never guess from their laidback American indie-folk sound. A plethora of great acts such as Iron and Wine, Elliott Smith and Scott Matthews creep in and out of your mind as you listen, thanks largely to singer Kelly Dyson�s thankfully non-grating transatlantic tones.

Accordingly then, it�s not an album of high thrills and singalong choruses but gentler pleasures and great �little� moments, like on the exquisite Herman Dune-like Believer when the instruments drop down and Dyson croons �Why didn�t you tell me your real name; or take me to your real home?�

Much like the recent Low album, this record saves its biggest treats till the end. The title track sounds like Bjork�s The Anchor Song as re-imagined by Sufjan Stevens whilst Turn Of The Day could easily slip onto one of the remaining 48 US states albums that Stevens has yet to deliver. Dyson sounds uncannily like that other notable English yankophile, Steven Adams on Fear Of A Wide Open Life yet still slips in a woozy Scousedelic chorus for good measure.

�Ends Of June� is the sound of an English band not afraid to look to the USA for their inspiration, and it�s a happy wonder that it works quite this well. Any decent alphabetical collection should have it nestled next to Low forthwith.

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