Love as Laughter- Laughter’s Fifth

Love as Laughter
Laughter's Fifth

Highly irreverent indie rock from Sam Jayne of Love as Laughter makes for some interesting listening. I’m usually not such a big fan of 70s or 80s classic rock influenced modern bands, and there have been quite a few to come out on Subpop in the last year. But I actually took a fancy to a few of the later tracks on the album such as Neil Young influenced “Every Midnight Song”. That song really got off the ground and started to rock out near the end.

Many of the songs remind me of something like a mishmash of Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr., late era Rolling Stones and some T Rex thrown in for good measure. “Dirty Lives” borrows the baseline from “I Can’t Help Myself” by the Four Topsbut smashes along in Velvet Underground type fashion. “I’m A Ghost” takes old fashioned guitar grit and mixes it with Jayne’s wobbly Wayne Coyne falsetto.

“Canal Street” contains a part in which the bands sings “I got it in on Canal Street” in a really hilarious monotonic chorus. A really weird Spongebob Squarepants Bikini Bottom sounding guitar solo makes the song even funnier. I surprised myself by getting into many of the other tracks on the album as well. Maybe the 70s revivalists aren’t as bad as I think they are…

Love As Laughter website

by Tyranosaur