Friday, Feb. 1, 2013
LovaNova
Cabinova
Retreating to the forests of northern Wisconsin to
record an album doesn't necessarily make for an exercise in sorrowful Bon Iver
folkiness. So prove Milwaukee's organ-heavy musical cross-genre pollinators
LovaNova. The move to a woodsier environment to track Cabinova results in a heavier iteration of the quartet's mutant
aesthetic. The prog-rock, bop jazz, lounge exotica and dub reggae influences
that informed their prior work now revolve more than ever around interplay
between Paul "Evil" Kneevers' Hammond B3 and Sean Williamson’s muddy,
angry guitar. Most of the numbers on this brief album run under four minutes,
but it's easy to imagine them going on at least twice as long. LovaNova knows
how to leave its audience wanting more.



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