I Love You
Afro-beat / Dub / Punk
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"Drone, Drugs and Harmony"
Kansas City, Missouri
United States
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| I Love You: General Info
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| Member Since | 12/10/2004 | | Band Website | yahtibyahlablu.com | | Band Members | Jeffrey and Justin
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booking information: iloveyoumusic@gmail.com
Album Publicity: info@soapboxpromotion.com
Press Info here | | Influences | We've lost our vitamin C and are living off of rain drops and repetition
| | Sounds Like | Yelling into the Grand Canyon, Three Ghosts Playing Music?
Releases
12" split w/ Davan
Six Trick Pony CD
Drone, Drugs, and Harmony CD/Cassette
Featured on:
Chomp Womp Comp Vol. One
Lillerne Tape Comp '08
Press Press Press
On their MySpace page I LOVE YOU call themselves “Kansas City, Missouri’s best-kept secret,” and it’s true: they’re a fantastic band, but they’re virtual unknowns outside the basement-and-party circuit where they’ve been rocking faces. They started out as an improvising noise-jam unit, and though you can hear hints of that past in their anxious unhits—there’s lots of sonic space and rambunctious discord—these days they play a strange, sweet-and-sour flavor of dance music. On their second EP, the self-released Drone, Drugs and Harmony, the guitars moan and chatter, swimming in reverb, and loud, harsh notes jut out of the cyclical melodies, which mutate and expand with charming imprecision. “March of the Dead” proposes a wondrously busy and rumpled version of dub—loose but euphonic clang chugs along beneath distant-sounding whoops and yelps, and the loudest thing in the mix is bass. Holding this shambling business together is the band’s palpable kid energy, a visceral us-against-the-world excitement that practically bleeds from the cassette. —Jessica Hopper, Chicago Reader
I Love You
In some sort of punk zombie alternative future, I Love You rise from their makeshift graves to entertain rather than eat brain. The song is “March of The Dead” from their amusingly titled album Drone, Drugs, and Harmony. Listening to the track it seems the band has engaged in all three. At points the singer almost sounds like Ian Curtis’ younger brother with a slightly higher voice. The guitar work is both straightforward and layered with bits of feedback peeking out from behind the curtain. If music is, in part, about creating imagery through sound, this song definitely does a good job of creating the image of a bunch (group, gaggle?) of zombies on the march, periodically stopping to do a little zombie dancing. It’s at once a little creepy and a good listen sure to have you saying,” I Love You, I love you.” Stereo Subversion
Those three little words everyone says at one time or another inspired this band's name. Bizarro art-rork duo I Love You doesn't make music for lovers, though, unless we're talking about an affair between a masochistic physics professor and a pair of electric nipple clamps. Singer and guitarist Justin Randel begins the typical song by feeding strange, off-kilter guitar patterns into a loop pedal, then fires up a few other noisemakers contained in one of the several open briefcases at his feet. Gradually building a solid beat, drummer Jeff Schlette spins the noise confetti into a solid but shaky column of dance-inducing groove. Randel begins flying about, shaky his hips, whipping his long brown hair and shouting into the mic like a tweaking David Byrne, all the while playing remarkably clean lead riffs on his guitar. It's fun to watch in a half-empty bar; I can only imagine how righteously these guys would rock a crowded basement. Pitch Weekly (Kansas City)
Wisely realising that the commercial years of improvised music by bands with Russian names had passed, they quickly changed their name to I Love You, switched their instruments and stopped improvising. The resulting nihilistically quirky discordant drone pop, all angular melodies a la early Liars and harmonic dissonance a la Pavement, has cult written all over them. I Love You may be the best thing to come out of Kansas since the Yellow Brick Road.-
“Ones to Watch for 2008,” The Devil has the Best Tuna (UK)
Formerly a trio, ILY are now a drum-guitar duo. Seeing them live it was clear what had intrigued me in the first place, and that is the atmospheric combination of quasi-steppers rhythms with noise-rock cut and slash. -Joly, punkcast.com (NYC) | | Type of Label | None |
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Echo Curio |
LA, California |
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the Twilight Bar |
Portland, Oregon |
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the Pizzeria |
Olympia, Washington |
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3337 NE Wasco |
Portland, Oregon |
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Skinless Gallery |
Kansas City, Missouri |
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Velvet Lounge |
Washington DC |
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Death by Audio |
Brooklyn, New York |
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Pianos |
Manhattan, New York |
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the Smiling Moose |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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Moria |
Indianapolis, Indiana |
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Cork Lounge |
Chicago, Illinois |
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Vaudeville Mews |
Des Moines, Iowa |
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Replay Lounge |
Lawrence, Kansas |
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Elephungeon |
Boone, Iowa |
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Boondocks |
Houston, Texas |
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| About I Love You |
"'I Love You' thrashes about in the secret playroom between punk and indie rock, where the kids dress in rags and are given chemistry sets at a dangerously early age," wrote KC weekly The Pitch after a recent ILY show. Combining noise rock cut-and-slash with the Afro-centric pulse of dub, they have a sound that is truly their own. 'I Love You' (Yah Tibyah La Blu) is the catchy descendant of an improvisational noise trio called Tobacco Painless that formed in 2004. As 'I Love You', they have toured extensively and recorded two EPs, Six Trick Pony (2006) and Drone, Drugs and Harmony (out Nov. 2008) as well as a 12" split. The band lives and rehearses in an abandoned storefront in Kansas City, Missouri, "The Paris of the Plains."
'I Love You' has played with
Aids Wolf, Ad Astra Per Aspera, Castanets, Coat Party, the Fall, Ghosty, Gowns, Heavy Winged,
I Heart Lung, Mahjongg, Mythical Beasts, Numbers, the Old Haunts, Old Time Relijun, the Pharmacy, Psychedelic Horseshit, Raccoo-oo-oon, Religious Knives, the Show is a Rainbow, the Ssion, Titus Andronicus, This song is a Mess but so am I, These Are Powers, Usaisamonster, Wooden Wand and Vanishing Voice
LIVE VIDEOS! Shot November 2, 2007 by punkcast.com at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY.
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