Meet The Love Substitutes

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Full title: Meet The Love Substitutes While The House Is On Fire.Double Vinyl w/Insert.Three successive Deus guitarists. Four extraordinary musicians. Two seminal Belgian albums - On vinyl for the first time via Jezus Factory Records as part of the label's 20 year anniversary celebrations. There is an obvious way of introducing The Love Substitutes. Rudy Trouve. Craig Ward. Mauro Pawlowski. Bert Lenaerts. Four musicians from one of the richest and most eccentric corners of the Belgian underground, bringing together decades of experience across dEUS, Kiss My Jazz, Evil Superstars, Dead Man Ray, Gore Slut, iH8 Camera, A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen and a bewildering network of solo projects, collaborations and experimental groups. There is, of course, an obvious dEUS connection. Rudy Trouve was the original guitarist in dEUS. Craig Ward subsequently replaced Rudy. Mauro Pawlowski later replaced Craig. Bert Lenaerts was soundman for The Smashing Pumpkins. Amongst other things. Three musicians who successively occupied the same guitar position in Belgium's biggest alternative band eventually found themselves in the same band. By the time The Love Substitutes came together, Rudy, Craig and Mauro had already established extraordinary and highly individual careers of their own. They had crossed paths repeatedly within Antwerp's remarkably fertile musical underground, including through Kiss My Jazz, long before The Love Substitutes brought them together in the same four-piece in 2004. Another important part of the equation is that Rudy, Craig and Mauro all contribute vocals across the band's music. There is no single frontman, no dominant songwriting personality and no fixed musical template. The three voices bring three distinct approaches to melody, lyrics and songwriting, adding enormously to the variety running through both albums. At the time the band described themselves as "Death folk artwank." Meet The Love Substitutes While The House Is On Fire (2004). - The first Love Substitutes album is often remembered for its noise, improvisation and sheer unruliness and being recorded in a day and a half. There are primitive riffs, abrasive guitar experiments, psychedelic excursions, extended improvisations and moments where it sounds as if the whole recording studio might collapse in on itself but wrapped inside this there are moments of dishevelled pop perfection such as Death Folk Sailor, Open and Shanty.1.The Microcosmic Orbit 0:09 2. Meet The Love Substitutes 2:00 3. Death Folk Sailor 6:05 4. Like If You Had Any Clue At All 2:37 5. Lower The Masterfader 0:52 6. Open 2:58 7. More Than The Sun Part One 2:28 8. Disconnected 10:33 9. The Medicine Palace 2:38 10. Hey! Did You See Me Coming? 4:44 11. Flatzone 3:58 12. Summer Of Mars, Deuxieme Tableau 5:23 13. Hey, This Is What We Do For A Living 0:41 14. More Than The Sun Part Two 2:59 15. Shanty 9:35