It's a little surprising to realize that things like the
Load Records
coterie and
Andrew W.K.
have been around long enough to become influences on later bands, but
I Love You
-- no relation to the failed hair-metallish band of the early '90s -- demonstrate this readily enough in both their sweat-soaked scraggly-haired image, and in their rough-sounding party music that's more electronic than rock & roll, per se, though guitars and feedback are present nonetheless. (At one point it almost results in something that could have been a lost
Batcave
club track from London 1983, thanks to the early
U2
-isms crossed with near
Sex Gang Children
-level wailing.) The semi-sneer/semi-chant vocals are mostly incomprehensible by design, but as the music takes precedence throughout, it all seems to make sense on that front. ~ Ned Raggett