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" As denial record's warm-up release to the second Love Ends Disaster! EP you couldn't ask for more. The amusingly-named I Love Poland already sound polished (get it) in a down-to-earth glam way. The singer has a deep, Jonathan Richman-like tone as he chugs: 'if you want regrets, regret this' on the opener. Second track, 'Cripple', comes on like a more laid-back Joy Division with a conscience and a sound like three men trapped in a cupboard occasionally forgetting and trying the handle. Ace! "

Alex Lawson


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I Love Poland ‘Regret This’ (Denial). From those trend setting dudes who recently had us all dancing our back sides off in all manner of angular fashion with the awesome Love Ends Disaster debut from a few months back (and be warned kids we are led to believe there’s more LED action on the way shortly) now comes this ultra limited debut from Leeds based duo I Love Poland – who are incidentally Chris and Ben (– and when we say limited like 150 copies only). Goddammit this is good – real good so good that for a while I was back in my youthful formative years surrounded by all manner of first generation new wave electronic music from the days when it was analogues, posing, aloofness and a sense of the future being heard now (or then as the case may be) – stuff like the Normal, Cabaret Voltaire and pre disco dollies Human League. I Love Poland you’d imagine are the type of outfit who go about reclaiming old Roland / Yamaha / Arp synths and putting them back together with oodles of gaffa tape, and yet while the Yamaha reference rings true it’s a rickety drum machine and a fender bass that carves the sparse soundscapes that filter throughout these recordings – in fact so sparse that this duo might well have hit upon a new meaning for minimalist. ‘Regret this’ is carved in that same lo-fi austerity that greeted listeners upon first hearing Cocteau Twins ‘Garlands’ and those early Sisters of Mercy releases – in fact it’s the latter ensemble that this gritty ditty strikes a chord with but without the attendant paranoia and psychosis – yet that said why do I keep thinking of the Passage. Flip side is better still, ‘Cripple’ with its pauses, pants and general sense of nakedness belies something positively itchy in a ‘ooh er – more tea Vicar’ way possessing something undeniably fatalistic in its flawed beauty as it mooches and creeps across your listening space like some spawn derived from a brief encounter between ‘Bedsitter’ era Soft Cell and early career Suicide. And with that pretty essential stuff I’d say. www.denialrecords.com


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I Love Poland “Regret This” (Denial Records)

Smoothly spineless, but still rather worrying as Neil Tennant squats in the space usually camped in by Marc Almond. More voltage for the flip, “Cripple” as they blip, rather than trip the circuit breakers with some sinuously lazy electronic-cymbal-splashery. It’s rather ace and I like it, but then I’m the one going shopping in a C5. (www.denialrecords.com)

on John Kennedys X-Posure show


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I Love Poland to release A VERY LIMITED EDITION 7'' single ("Regret This/Cripple") on monday the 29th August through Denial Records (www.denialrecords.com).

To order a copy go to: www.roughtrade.com

Or download at: www.karmadownload.com

19/08/05-----LEEDS-----The Vine------8 pm


31/08/05------LONDON-------The Water Rats------- CLUB FANDANGO-------8 pm