The Rainbow Lodge was in the Top 20 albums in last year's Best 100 and King Black Acid became my new favourite band. I love 'em. So to have a follow up within a year makes me very happy indeed. Again this feels very Brit Pop, but that doesn't do it justice at all and if it was just that it would wipe the floor with anything ever from that genre.
Brit Pop is only the base camp as the territory is much wider and Victory For Mad Love revels in all that space. King Black Acid can go in any direction and master it. This is Album Of The Year material and that opinion is not based on one listen.
I've been fortunate to have the album for a couple of months and had the benefit of repeated listens and adored it more on every listen. The album never loses its melody and sheer catchiness as it twists and turns in every song.
I Roasted My Heft for instance starts all Classic Rock, adds a little 80s smooth and then goes into Psych Rock aided by a jawdropping chorus. Turning On My Televison mixes 80s Rock with Australian Psych and delights. Now I What To Remember starts with a Beat Box and then becomes an intriguing 80s Jaunty Pop joy.
Come On People starts all Classic Rock then becomes a 90s Anthem. I Don't Want To Ever Hurt You Again is an unexpected modern love song. The Invisible Wars closes the album with a top notch gentle Pastoral Psych affair which is still as catchy as catchy can be.
The stand out song is You're Going Down / Wasting In The Zone, a song that sounds very 90s with a joint vocal and the You're Going Down is venemous, yet sang so sweetly. Fans of the outer edges of Brit Pop will adore this. I'm thinking of bands like Octopus and Straw. But the album should more than appeal to all Pop Rock fans.
You can listen to and buy the album here. There is also a RSD Vinyl Release, limited to 500, that you may still be able to get at all good record stores.
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