Love Spit Love

With thundering tom-toms and meaty riffs providing a fine bed for Richard Butler's vocals,
Love Spit Love opens on a high note. On "Seventeen" the singer ladles out typically
arm's-length lyrics ("I'm gonna keep the names that I use for myself to myself"), and his new
band seems a world away from his previous outfit, the Psychedelic Furs. But the track loses
steam under a falsetto rant that sounds like a bad Monty Python impression. That... More >