It's threatening to rain outside so, yeah, being the pussy I am these days I'm keeping it indoors this morning for 60 minutes worth of cardio instead.
Besides, it's possibly my last day at the gym anyway so, yeah, I might as well right?
Sure.
Anyway, my soundtrack this morning is this Lift album by Love & Rockets.
Lift is the seventh and final studio album by English alternative rock band, released in 1998 on Red Ant Records.
Lift was the follow-up to Sweet F.A., Love & Rockets' poorly received return to guitar-based rock, but is more closely related to their previous album, the electronica-oriented Hot Trip to Heaven. But where Hot Trip to Heaven, though flawed, boasted strong songwriting and an intriguing mix of electronics and old-fashioned instruments, Lift suffers from a dearth of good material and an over-reliance on techno clichés. Ash, J, and Haskins were doing their best to change with the times, but it's telling that the highlights of this album either sound like outtakes from earlier Love & Rockets albums (Pink Flamingo, Delicious Ocean) or invoke the memory of Bauhaus. Party's Not Over is a haunting and grandiose lament that would not have sounded out of place on Burning From the Inside and Resurrection Hex samples the Bauhaus songs Stigmata Martyr and In the Night.
Approaching the turn of the century, Love & Rockets sounded like a spent creative force, their best moments far behind them. It was moot though as the simultaneous bankruptcy of the Red Ant Records label — on which Peter Murphy was also an artist — and the subsequent success of the 1998–99 "Bauhaus Resurrection" tour led to the ultimate demise of Love & Rockets as a project.
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