Black Love

It's not that often that I get a lot of direct music submissions here on the site but, when I do, I tend to pay a bit more attention because I know the hustle is hard. So, when Black Love decided not only to submit their offerings to me but mail out a full copy of their record on vinyl, I paid attention. The included bio was both curious and intriguing:

Black Love makes primitive, disorienting hard rock - urgent, purposeful music about loss, using heavy and basic instrumentation to the effect of creating something that's between an Appalachian snake handling revival and a lighthouse crumbling and re-building itself in 4/4 time. It's majestic, forceful break-up music: wretched and redemptive blues about annihilated love.

Turns out, that description is apt. There's a cacophony of drums and an overall darkness to it - not unlike Cloroform or one of the more focused Mike Patton projects. I suggest starting with one of the more melodic pieces, Airlessness is a good place to start.

I certainly wouldn't have stumbled on this in my own browsings and it's a little off the radar from what I typically listen to but I completely appreciate the submission and can imagine their live show is quite a spectacle.