„Dark star Californian sirens who’ll destroy you with sweet narcosis.
Get ready to die.“
Nice invitation to David Holmes´s new band „Unloved“ and the don’t-give-a-damn title „Guilty of Love“. In fact, three records will appear on the same day (March 8th) that all signal time travel obsession with the wild part of the 60’s and (in parts) even the 50’s: Holmes´ smoky, sepia-tinged noir mix of coolness, emptyness and despair; the freewheelin‘ battle of moods from the Mersey River´s „The Coral“ on their wildest album to date, Distance In Between, that lays it all down: a touch of Hawkwind’s formative years, the darker moods of the slow-burning TV series Mad Men and other little worlds softly falling apart. Finally, M. Ward and „More Rain“. Believe it or not, this troubadour has no interest in restoring and rewriting lost nostalgia, it’s just dead serious business (and, oh, what a joy, too!) mixing time distortion with crafted songlines and ghosty textures: „Lift me high, so that I can see the dark shine beyond my darkest day.“