Swedish Indie rock quintet Love Is All's third full-length album Two Thousand and Ten Injuries, released earlier this year in March, charms the listening from the opening with its high energy, almost hyperactive and yet controlled playing style and Josephine Olausson's unique childish voice. Instead of an emphasis being placed on vocals or instrumentals, they weave together sometimes trading roles like on lead track "Bigger Bolder" where the guitars finish the melodic lines after Olausson begins them. Definitely a summer album, the tracks have a warmness and jangly guitar stylings that wouldn't be out of place in surf-rock and yet, manages to elusively evade that classification or any strict classifications all-together (like a brief reggae-ishness in "False Pretense"). The album reminds me of British band Stricken City but only due to its energetic playing and somewhat nonsensical (and sometimes hard to hear) lyrics. That's not to say the lyrics are bad but that they aren't necessarily trying to do much more than entertain and enjoy what they do. Love Is All, with its hodge-podge of instruments, love of music-making certainly shines through on this album and I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who isn't charmed by the band, the album, and their respective whimsy.
Give the band a listen with the music video for "Kungen" directed by Olausson herself:
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