Oxbow - Love's HolidayIve always been chagrined that no one understood that our songs were love songs, says Oxbow vocalist and lyricist Eugene Robinson, while reflecting on the bands output from the last 35 years. Love may not have been the most obvious muse in their earlier work, but the subject has never been more apparent than on their eighth studio album, and first new music in six years, Loves Holiday. But now listening to a record of exclusively love songs I can see

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members of Abrasive Trees

Start these sonic tribulations with Les Masters and their 'Petites amies'

dysfunctional relationships ("Back off Bitch")

For fans of Pentangle

and drummer Adam Bulgasem have grown closer even as they live further apart

The riffs and tones are as varied as Kvelertak’s audience will expect

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intricately detailed stories within perfect three-and-a-half minute pop masterpieces

all in search of escape

As far as a potential inspirational indicator

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