The House of Love- 1986-1988: The Creation Recordings (2001) MP3 & FLAC

"I sold you a favour in the dark. Got a salt dream and a red scar. Weak, bending in the wind, two good words and white skin."

Posed precariously between the death of The Smiths (and Post-Punk itself for that matter) and the rise of Brit-Pop in the early nineties, The House of Love were strangely untethered to their own time and place. As a result, though they were easily the equal of most of their Post-Punk influences, Guy Chadwick & co. were destined to fall through the cracks of commercial success. What remained after the band self-destructed in the mid-nineties due to drug abuse and record company bullshit was a waiting-to-be-rediscovered discography saturated with sublime guitar-pop, not quite Post-Punk, not quite Shoegaze, not quite Brit-Pop, but somehow transcending them all. The Creation Recordings focuses on what many believe to be the band's most fertile period, when lead guitarist Terry Bickers was still involved in the proceedings. These are gorgeous, haunting pop songs that manage to look backward and forward simultaneously, which is why, unlike many of their better known peers, The House of Love invoke a sense of timelessness with their music.

1986-1988: The Creation Recordings
 1. Christine  (3:26)
 2. Hope  (2:57)
 3. Road  (3:44)
 4. Sulphur  (3:06)
 5. Man to Child  (2:49)
 6. Salome  (2:30)
 7. Love in a Car  (3:59)
 8. Happy  (2:54)
 9. Fisherman's Tale  (3:44)
10. Touch Me  (3:03)
11. Shine On  (3:19)
12. Plastic  (2:04)
13. Love  (2:25)
14. Real Animal  (3:00)
15. The Hedonist  (4:03)
16. Flow  (2:37)
17. Nothing to Me  (3:11)
18. Welt  (3:20)
19. On the Hill  (2:54)
20. Lonliness Is a Gun  (2:26)
21. Destroy the Heart  (2:42)
22. Blind  (2:37)
23. Mr. Jo  (3:55)

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