Frankie Teardrop Dead’s newest release, All You Need Is Love And Fucking Peace is packed full of enough psychedelic dreamgaze to last you all week long. This is the London-based bands’ second album, and showcases the confidence of a band really coming into their own.
All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace opens with “Short Story of The Mourning Sun”, a hazy-folky instrumental, before launching into the darker, post-punk psychedelia of “Joy in Division”, and then moving fluidly into dreamy space psych on “What’s It All About”.
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Standout tracks include “I Love You (Me Neither)” which has a heavy Brian Jonestown Massacre influence, with its folky, bluesy guitars and harmonica, “The Cure”, a darker new-wave esque psych groove, and the album’s title track, “All You Need Is Love and Fucking Peace”: a groovy post-punk jam with droning synth, sitar and a very limited amount of vocals. My personal favorite is the album’s final track, “Lost Member Of A Fake Boyband”, which is two and a half minutes of perfect Eastern influenced psych grooves, and a lovely conclusion to the album.
There’s a variety of sounds on All You Need Is Love and Fucking Peace, but the album never feels disjointed- the band brings in elements of folk, psych, shoegaze, post-punk, new wave, garage, and manages to still create a sound that’s distinctively their own.
I was expecting an album of psych dreamgaze to have tracks each clocking in between 5-10 minutes, but Frankie Teardrop Dead keep their tunes right around 3 minutes each (with the exception of the title track), which lends some pop sensibility to them and keeps you wanting more. I never once felt bored while listening to All You Need Is Love And Fucking Peace- if anything I wish the album had a few more tracks.
Frankie Teardrop dead is currently touring the UK- you can catch them in Brighton with Brian Jonestown Massacre October 24th.
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