‘Love Love Love Love Love’: NEW music from Violent Femmes — dangerousminds.net

Violent Femmes have unleashed upon the world, via Soundcloud, the new song “Love Love Love Love Love.” Apart from a charmingly odd cover, in 2008, of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” this is the first new release from the band since the 2000 LP Freak Magnet. “Love…” is itself a cover, of a song by a Los Angeles musician named Jake Brebes, but it heralds a new Femmes E.P., Happy New Year, due out next month. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is, while it’s no return to the band’s original, amazing form, “Love…” is quite good, and sets high hopes for the rest of the E.P. The bad news is it’s a goddamn Record Store Day exclusive, so if you want one, you’ll have to stand in line and possibly get into a physical altercation with an eBay-flipper scumbag to get one.

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