The House Of Love - She Paints Words In Red (2013)

Tracklist

01. A Baby Got Back On Its Feet
02. Hemingway
03. She Paints Words In Red
04. PKR
05. Lost In the Blues
06. Low Black Clouds
07. Money Man
08. Trouble In Mind
09. Never Again
10. Sunshine Out of the Rain
11. Holy River
12. Eye Dream
13. Plans (B-side)
14. PKR (B-side version)

She Paints Words in Red is the second House of Love reunion album, arriving eight years after 2005's Days Run Away, but it received the biggest push since their 1993 farewell, Audience with the Mind, arriving on the prominent indie Cherry Red. Middle age suits House of Love quite well, actually. Always a gentle, melodic guitar pop group, they've aged nicely, feeling at home in their sweetly swaying rhythms and easy, almost whispered melodies. When they were younger, there was an air of preciousness to House of Love, but that's faded over time; they've strengthened as they've mellowed, a seeming contradiction that's never confused because both the tunes and performances are sturdy. She Paints Words in Red is not an album that commands attention, but it's not intended as anything forceful: House of Love are comfortable in their skin without being complacent, sounding happy, even grateful, to be writing and playing again, winding up with a record that stands alongside their '80s and '90s work quite nicely.

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