Mean Lady
Love Now
Reviewed by: Stephen Krock
Listening to Mean Lady’s Love Now is a lot like listening to an amazing new album for the first time. No wait. It’s exactly like that. Love Now is unlike anything I have ever heard before. In the first few minutes, I heard a funky, awesomely weird, quirky girl group full of Kate Nashes in “One Big Family.” Followed by a breezy, semi-island beat reminiscent of early Nelly Furtado in “Far Away.” Then a sweet little ditty akin to a very granola She & Him in “Mother Earth.”
Not one track is like the other, making Love Now the most dynamic album I’ve heard in a while. What’s most laudable is how all the songs are married perfectly with the band’s lovely harmonies spread evenly throughout. The album has just the right amount of sprinkles of new, strange sounds (pretty sure I heard some cell phone beeps) to keep it interesting throughout. And all the way to the end in the beautifully simplistic guitar circle song, “I Will Marry You.”
It takes a vastly superior band to make such an expansive album so cohesive. And reasonably short at only nine songs. I want to try and think of something bad to say, but I just can’t. Mean Lady is just flat out fun and Love Now will restore at least a semblance of any lost faith in music.
Rating: Iconic
