Album Review: Lovebreakers - "Primary Colours"

 

Hailing from the West Midlands, the Lovebreakers are another band from the ever-growing British power-pop scene. And I'm never gonna complain at some power-pop in my reviewing inbox but the fact remains that this is an increasingly populated area of the music scene right now and it's getting harder and harder as time goes on to stand out if you're a resident of it.

The main band this lot remind me of are early Elvis Costello & The Attractions on the likes of Worst Gentlemen, Cling On and former single Family Man. However, there's a definite hint of the poppier end of mid-'70s glam rock in here as well such as Hello or the Arrows and even a slight echo of the Jam at their poppiest in places. Put it this way, if these guys were Italian, they'd definitely be sharing bills with Giuda a lot I suspect.

Primary Colours is certainly a solid enough album but the only issue is that for all its tight instrumentation and tunefulness, it just doesn't quite have a killer tune to properly leap out at you. You certainly can't accuse the Lovebreakers of not trying here with the stuff on offer varying from the doo-wop stylings of I Will Love Life to the Records style high-tempo rockers Same Blood and former single Horizons but for all their pleasantness, none of them really stick in your head enough to make you want to cue this up for a second listen once you reach the end.

I get the impression that the Lovebreakers are maybe a band still finding their feet a bit but there's plenty of promising signs that they're gonna get there eventually and hopefully with a little bit of care and practice it might just be on their next album. But the harsh truth is that they're not quite the finished article at this point in time. Still, don't write 'em off just yet. 

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