This is the first single from LARK'S third album ‘Blink’. Lark are a band founded by Karl Bielik who describes himself as a nonconformist and idiosyncratic songwriter. Love me is a turbulent affair. Simple, conversational lyrics are underpinned by a 4/4 drum machine rhythm, distorted guitar riff and a dissonant cracked melody. It’s like the bastard illiterate son of Nick Cave (and Bad Seeds) tumbling around in a washing machine.
Having heard none of their previous work, nor any of the new album it’s difficult to know how to judge it. It does not strike me as a single particularly, but then I’m not sure an attack on the singles chart is what they have in mind. It’s a bit soundclash and a bit more industrial goth. Like Sisters Of Mercy without the posing and over production.
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It’s not an amazing track by any stretch. It doesn’t have much movement musically but it is short and sweet and it does chart the essence of relationships succinctly. It’s also a relatively unique and skewed vision of the world and it deserves praise for that. Not that a guy with a big grey beard gives a monkey what I think.
Lark at Bandcamp
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