Love

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Cat No: TCF003

Release Date: 13 August 2012

Label: Total Creative Freed

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 880992146272

Genres: Folk Dub

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""uplifting trumpets, mellow organs, rounded synthesisers, intricate guitar picking...elements of Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, The Cat Empire, David Gray..." - The Skinny Magazine
"We've played this CD constantly since it arrived - a chilled out blend of acoustic songs, mellow melodies, & uplifting ambient electronics. nice." - Music-News Scotland

Bob Hillary and The Massive Mellow return to the long player fray with a stunning new album called 'LOVE'. 'LOVE' is an album which can only be classified as psychedelic, acoustic, dub with a liberal dose of social commentary and the same laid back Bob Hillary sensibility that follows on beautifully from the stunning debut album 'NATURE'S PACE'. 'LOVE' draws on influences as diverse as Woody Guthrie, The Beat, Bob Marley, James Taylor, Paul Simon and The Beatles.

'LOVE' opens with the minimal Guthrie inspired 'How Will We Survive' a song that draws on the heritage of classic folk song writing with a gentle but pertinent plea to humanity to look a little closer at the way we're living. The song manages to challenge and inspire without being patronising through Bob's understated but passionate performance. Leaning on the precedent set up by tracks like 'Take It Slow' from 'NATURE'S PACE', 'Gently Does It' is a gorgeous and simple acoustic reggae pop song with pithy lyrics that show that the Gentleman Bob Hillary can laugh at himself. 'Crop Circles' is another quirky track with an outer-space dub perspective on the mystical phenomenon. 'The Earth Song' expresses planetary love and devotion, which is no less than you would expect from a man living in the Welsh Mountains off grid in a Yurt. 'I Feel Love' in its acoustic rendition and the dub version clearly express the orbit Bob Hillary and The Massive Mellow are on. 'LOVE' is an album made for sunny afternoons, for letting go to, for dancing and joyfully singing along loudly to.

Following the global economic melt down and in the era of the emerging 1% Bob Hillary and The Massive Mellow speak for an empowered generation not content to be silent in their plea for non-violence, their sense of basic human justice and their evolved environmental perspective. Picking up on the flower power sensibilities of the US West Coast in the 60s, 'LOVE' as an album draws heavily on those influences. What sets 'LOVE' apart from other albums that have a retrospective sensibility is how contemporary it sounds. In a violent World where we are all too instantly aware of the atrocities committed by one human to another 'LOVE' is a powerful and defiant statement. 'LOVE' is an optimistic, inspired and hopeful record that disproves the theory that a happy song and a song with a powerful message is not necessarily a good one. Bob Hillary and The massive Mellow are not afraid to step forward and tell it "as it is" by writing a song cycle that only alludes to romantic notions. 'LOVE' as an album reflects the dilemmas the human family are facing. When Bob suggests he will be joining the aliens "grooving in the stars" he conveys his deeply personal and somehow universal lyrical perspective with strength and integrity. If you roll all these elements together into one body of work perhaps that is exactly what 'LOVE' is.
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