News A Fight For Love

It’s often presumed that bands know what they’re doing, have a grand overarching plan or any kind of clue about what on earth they’re trying to achieve. What’s largely true, however, is that those golden gods are just as useless and without direction as us mere mortals – they don’t have the faintest about how what sound they’re stretching for.

More than most, Parisian pop band A Fight for Love seem to embody this. With a name that sounds like it was stolen from a forgotten screamo act, the noise they make is more tinted by simple, tropical poop. Hands in the Dark Records have given the group their first physical release with ‘End of Summer EP’, and it’s four tracks vary wildly in quality.

For all the occasional faux pas and bum notes that the back end of the record is notable for, all can be forgiven for the glimmering beauty of opener ‘Ocean’. Like waves upon the shore, it’s both reassuring and relentless; a cascading onslaught of bright, intelligent reverb and rhythm. It’s the kind of tracks that begs to be repeated, a kind of aural warm blanket. We can only hope that this is the kind of brilliant, tranquil beauty they were hoping to make a career out of rather than less nuanced efforts that follow. Still, even if it’s not, we’ve always got these 3 minutes and 36 seconds to look back upon and smile.