4.52am Issue: 027 30th March 2017 - The Blondie Issue

LT WADE
Hard To Know
You probably know LT Wade from Furs
whose album ‘Just Kids’ was many kinds
of cool last Summer, but there is so much
more to the chap than that (not least that
he survived being Courtney Love’s
guitarist), and now he is showing his skills
as a songwriter with his own solo release
‘Hard To Know.’
As he explains,
“’Hard To Know’ is a realistic look at love
and how we perceive it. We’re sometimes
caught up with this twisted idea of what
love is through the movies we watch or
the music we listen to...even events like
Valentine's Day. For me love is many
different things as I’m sure it is for many
people. Love is personal. It’s not a bunch
of flowers or a box of chocolates once a
year. Sometimes you think that you’re in
love or you’re trying to be in love with
someone but you question it from time to
time. Is the love and am I doing it right?
Should I feel like this? It doesn’t always
run like a rom-com.”
And to celebrate all of the love, he also
put a video together himself,
"The visual is a DIY collage of a few of
my personal videos spliced in with
interesting bits I've searched and found
on the internet. I tried to find visual
snippets that complimented the lyrics
and the sonic qualities of the song."
What doesn’t come across from that is
just how innovative and plain old
interesting the music is. There are
elements of the psychedelic and
dreampop (or whatever we call it this
week) – even Krautrock - but the way
in which he uses notes and textures is
definitely painterly, a really great piece
of music, beautifully written and
exceptionally performed.
Simply put it is an aural explanation to
an alien of what it is to search and then
find love with all of the excitement fear
and pain that involves.
The alien may not understand, but
even they will get with the groove.
Time for a Mercury Prize methinks.
Find out more over HERE