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"NME Mini Album Review Jan 09"

Woolen sweaters, beards, Highland pubs: if any of these things pique your interest you're into minimal folk. There's a fine line between the beautifully simplistic and the arm-gnawingly dull within the genre - a tightrope this Fence Collective-affiliated London duo walk with perfect poise on their self-titled debut mini-album. The gently finger-picked guitars and weeping accordions on 'Secrets And Slumber' and 'The New York Song' may be sparse and slight but their arrangements are purposeful. Singer Lindsay West's honeydew pipes, meanwhile, evoke a young Joni Mitchell. She's little short of a revelation, and the principle reason why Love.Stop.Repeat would be '09's most deserving of 'doing a Marling'. - NME


"Mini Album Review Jan 09"

The first thing that strikes you about Love.Stop.Repeat is the care put in to the packaging of this, their first self-titled EP. Individually hand-made and bound, this is a record that is open, welcoming and warm right from the get-go. It's a package L.S.R. hope you will cherish and come to love over time. And they've made it easy for us, for the beauty of the music certainly matches the beauty of the CD.

It's a record that evokes nostalgia for things and events past, for the landscape that we travel through and become part of and "Secrets And Slumber" immediately showcases this, Lindsay West's sweet, sweet voice and Dave Millar's instrumentation, a wistful accordion battling over a jarring beat, "I still remember the feeling of solitude" sings West and you are immediately transported to back to the place she sings about, it's wonderfully done. "Pictures" and "Sunday Strolls And Miracles" continue the theme, the latter subsequently discovered at a recent show in Edinburgh to be a song about a trip to Cramond Island and as West sings "feel the weight of a heavy heart, as we pass along the coast, suddenly I realise, it's you I miss the most" and as the accordion and harmonium wheeze and a guitar is plaintively played you can't help but be caught up in West and Millar's trip.

"A Busy Heart Beating Strong" adds some piano to the mix, West's sultry vocal and Millar's glorious, textured drum sound sweep you away and "Melt Away" is built around a lovely little ukelele riff. The EP closes with "The New York Song", the simplest song on the record, West tells the story of a trip to New York with her sister as Millar plucks out a line on the ukelele, voice and simple instrumentation, nothing more is needed. It's at this point that I wish the last song went into the killer segue with Neutral Milk Hotel's "In An Aeroplane Over The Sea" as it does in their live shows as it's the perfect way to finish. But alas not, you'll have to go to one of their shows to experience that.

It's been said before but it really is the only word for it, this truly is a lovely, lovely record. 2 people, no fuss, no clutter, a beautiful voice and a beautiful sound. More of the same please Love.Stop.Repeat folks. - Plenty Side


Discography

"Love.Stop.Repeat" - mini album on our own label Make Your Own Adventure Records. Resonance FM in London have played tracks from this album (we also performed some of them in session for them).

"10x10:06" - Remixes EP on the electronic wing of Fence "De-Fence Records". Tracks from here have appeared on Radio 1 and other radio stations.

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Love.Stop.Repeat - a duo comprising of electronic De-Fencer Con Brio, and singer-songwriter Lindsay West.

Dave 'Con Brio' and Lindsay met via mutual friends at Fife's Fence Collective, after they both found they lived just a few mile apart in Surrey. After playing together towards the end of 2007 they formed Love.Stop.Repeat, recording and putting out their first mini album during the summer of 2008 via the Fence Records webshop. They've been trying to catch up with demand ever since as copies seem to go like hot cakes. They performed their first shows in the autumn in Scotland alongside King Creosote, James Yorkston and other Fence stallwarts and have continued gigging since. The pair are in the studio at the moment recording a new album and have a stack of shows lined up, including more with Fence.