[Photo by Wyatt Cusick]

Love Is All has recorded a bunch of their favorite Swedish classics — including a cover of Lykke Li’s mom’s band, Tant Strul’s “Pappas Tant” — and will be giving away the tracks to fans for free at their upcoming shows and online.
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It has always felt comfortable to refer to Love Is All in broad and complimentary terms. There is no denying around their bright, spirited indie-punk aesthetic, and their appeal is easily explained by their music’s shout-out-loud simplicity. At the same time, it is their very ease that makes them hard to keep in focus. It’s not hard to perk up an ear at the first guitar rumbles on “New Beginnings”, the first track off A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night. It does, however, get progressively more difficult to stay engaged. These songs are upbeat and melodic in a perfectly noisy way, but there’s also a palpable lack of surprise on instant mix-tape hits like “Movie Romance” and “Give It Back.”
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