Enemy Love (EP)
Enemy Love is the eponymously-named first recording by Enemy Love, released in 2003 through Diet Strychnine Records. A four-track EP, it was recorded during April 2003 in Monterey, Massachusetts, with producer Thom Monahan.
The songs were created in the context of the early-2000s post-punk revival in New York City, yet The Compact pop-hook nature of that music has been drawn out by Enemy Love into longer trails of bright guitar and danceable drumming, akin to aspects of the nascent dance-punk movement. The use of dissonance is reminiscent of late My Bloody Valentine, though each song on Enemy Love is marked by its own unique, shimmering melodies and distinctive vocals.
Above all, the lyrics seem to drive the song structures through their droning atmospheres. A song may meander following long rants and then break down into compact pockets of melody ("She Don't Make Me Run"), or the music of the song may become increasingly dissonant and ugly as lyrics take momentary nosedives into foolishness then return to an original propulsive course ("Weekender"), or yet another song can be built up, shaped around one thought then another, and the vocals will shimmer brighter and the bass will bounce more vividly according to each new height of lyrical fervor ("We Are All God's People").
Track listing
- "Weekender" (4:40)
- "We Are All God's People" (4:47)
- "Into the Sun" (4:30)
- "She Don't Make Me Run" (5:21)
Personnel
Band:
- Peter Rinko
- Matt Hayes
- Dan Silk
Technicians:
- Thom Monahan, producing/mixing
- Ken Heitmueller, mastering