- I Love All You Guys (3:01)
- Marriage (1:47)
- Fear of Missing Out (1:38)
About this Artist //
You may love Bobby
Burg and not yet know it. He has played in some premiere Chicago bands
including Joan of Arc, Make Believe, and Chin Up Chin Up, and now fronts a
project called Love of Everything. The band's current form is a duo
comprised of veteran musician Bobby (guitar) and his wife Elisse La Roche
(drums).
The group has been long in the making, but their newly released album Best in Tensions (Polyvinyl, 2010) is worth the wait. The album is a playful selection of minimalist lo-fi, offering up songs that are guitar-centered, sing-alongable pieces held together by simple, driving floor tom and snare rhythms.
Love of Everything pairs down songs to the basics. In the song "It Feels So Good to be Alive" Bobby continually sings “I need love in my life.” This, perhaps, can sum the tone of the record. It is optimistic with a hint of despair. It is straightforward and even modest with an undercurrent of tongue-in-cheekness.
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An integral part of the Midwest music scene for over a decade, Love of Everything’s Bobby Burg is keeping himself interested by consistently re imagining the sound of the band. Recorded at Chicago’s Semaphore Recording Ltd. on the city’s west side by Neil Strauch (Bonnie Prince Billy / Iron and Wine). Best In Tensions marks the first time Burg has taken a whole album worth of his short, catchy, naive music poems out of the bedroom and into the studio. This time he’s not doing it alone. Joined by his former illegal immigrant wife Elisse La Roche, as well as friends, past and future band mates and whomever else was on-hand to lend their talents, Best In Tensions shelves the “one-man band” ideal in favor of the richer, fuller sound of a band with multiple members. La Roche had never played drums before joining Love of Everything. Motivated by an opportunity to tour Europe, she learned the basics, studied the songs and found herself installed as Love of Everything’s permanent drummer.
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