Pictured: Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love hip, good shepherds, poor band-namers.
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love have too long of a name. That’s about it for criticism, on to the good stuff. L3L3L3 is a group of people from England playing songs that sound distinctly American. I can’t say what it is, maybe it’s just because there are slide guitars on parts, maybe it’s because their three biggest influences are Neil Young, Elliott Smith, and Neutral Milk Hotel, maybe it’s because I’m lazy and unless it’s dance-rock I’m not going to automatically think British. Probably all of these are (at least partly) true.
Imagine a band (possibly Akron/Family or Midlake) fronted by Stephen Malkmus, but with a sensitive side. Add mournful, squalid, and dirty guitars. Add some banjo (on occasion and only on mid-tempo songs. no “Yonder Mountain String Band Syndrome”). Add tasteful - but extra - percussion. Add enough Elliott Smith to make you think, but not enough to make you act on it. Subtract some bad attitude. Divide it, not for any particular reason, just divide it.
Anyway, enjoy what Kelly Dyson has created, an America that never really existed. One built on bonfires, dark birds on telegraph wires, old men with older faces, ancient cars crawling along treetops, and cheap, good beer. It’s what he does for me, it’s what he does for you.
This is a great song, even taken out of context. Please listen to the rest of the context. It is vitally important to you, me, and Fake America.
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Not bad, Ian. Not bad. I’ll be further checking out this find.
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