Career
Their debut album Love was released on Track and Field Records in 2004, but attracted generally hostile press coverage, and was commercially unsuccessful. Recorded mostly by Simon Love alone, their second album Technicolour was released in 2007 on Fortuna Pop.
The band recorded 4 Peel sessions between 2001 and 2002. 3 in Maida Vale and 1 at Peel Acres on Valentine's Day 2002.
The Loves have attracted criticism from many reviewers and people in the music industry for their alleged reliance on pastiche in their recordings and live performances. Although the Technicolour album was generally critically well received, and was The Sunday Times album of the week on 18 February 2007. A video of the single "Xs & Os" (released September 2006) was made by Ryan Owen and Simon Love from live footage that was filmed in London, Liverpool, Chelmsford and Chester.
Their third album, Three, (also released on Fortuna Pop) featured guest appearances from Rob Jones aka The Voluntary Butler Scheme, Delia Sparrow, Hefner's Darren Hayman and Harry Hill's TV Burp writer Daniel Maier.
In 2009, DRA Dance Collective used "Can You Feel My Heart Beat?" for their piece called "Panic Attack".
The Loves fourth and final album, ...Love You, was released on Fortuna Pop in 2010. It features The Velvet Underground's Doug Yule as the voice of Jesus. "Bubblegum" and "December Boy" were the double A sided single taken from the album in July 2010.
The group played the Indietracks Festival on 25 July 2010.
The Loves retired in February 2011. The Loves are due to reform for a tour in 2013, according to past member Steve Collins.
They once performed a gig to a crowd of 2 in a well-known Highgate pub.
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