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01. Love Child - Asking For It
02. Love Child - Know It's Alright
03. Love Child - He's So Sensitive
04. Love Child - Diane
05. Love Child - Cigarette Ash
06. Love Child - Sofa
07. Love Child - Crocus Says
08. Love Child - Slow Me Down
09. Love Child - Fortune Cookie
10. Love Child - Nice Toes
11. Love Child - Escalator
12. Love Child - Willpower
13. Love Child - Company
14. Love Child - Church Of Satan
15. Love Child - Chris Told Missy
16. Love Child - Obsessive Compulsive
17. Love Child - AAA XXX
18. Love Child - Sleepyhead
19. Love Child - Something Cruel
20. Love Child - Wait And See
21. Love Child - Stumbling Block
22. Love Child - Permission
23. Love Child - Six Of One
24. Love Child - Erotomania
25. Love Child - Greedy
26. Love Child - All Is Loneliness
ARTIST
TITLE
Never Meant To Be : 1988-1993
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
12XU 136LP 12XU 136LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/8/2024

Restocked. "At the very dawn of the '90s, Love Child's debut 7" made a splash on the burgeoning scene of shambolic bands and lo-fi recordings. Back then, they were mentioned in the same breath as Pavement, Sebadoh, or Beat Happening. But Love Child's two great albums and sparkling singles have become the stuff of record collectors, unavailable vis streaming and out of print, until now. Never Meant to Be: 1988-1993 pulls from these releases and some unreleased radio sessions, unearthing a trove of lost gems by a band that could be the best of all of the '90s buried treasures. Culled from their smashing debut 7", their two full-length albums, another great single, and some unreleased radio sets (including a Peel session), Never Meant To Be has catchy hooks, gritty noise, sneakily-deft playing, brainy but blunt lyrics, and lots of other awesome stuff. Love Child were part of lo-fi's beginnings, but also had the NYC pedigree to absorb predecessors like the Velvet Underground, the Voidoids and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Will Baum started Love Child while a student at Vassar College, bringing on classmates Rebecca Odes and Alan Licht. All three members were happy to trade roles and instruments from song to song, but they also had some specific chops. Licht was a bit of a guitar prodigy, having taught himself how to tap like Eddie Van Halen, but versed enough in punk to know simplicity could be just as powerful. Odes' bellowing bass was equally prominent, and her vocals could veer quickly from sweet to snarling, like Kim Deal or Georgia Hubley with a jagged edge."