“Sweet F.A.” Vinyl 2LP

Rick Rubin guided Love and Rockets to a return to more guitar-based songs for 1996’s Sweet F.A.

While the band were living and working at Rubin’s studio mansion, a fire broke out, which resulted in the band losing all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well. A burnt guitar plucked from the debris is on the album’s cover. The resulting album was inspired by some of their earliest influences – The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can. It spins tales of passion and loss, carried on a fluid, moody throb. Undulating, hypnotic rhythms twine around melancholy lyrics which examine life at a primal level, as ethereal electronic effects play counterpoint to earthquake reverberating guitars. The reissue features four previously unreleased tracks.

TRACKLISTING:

LP1 - SIDE A

1. Sweet F.A.

2. Judgement Day

3. Use Me

A4. Fever

5. Sweet Lover Hangover

LP1 - SIDE B

1. Pearl

2. Shelf Life

3. Sad And Beautiful World

4. Natacha

LP2 - SIDE C

1. Words Of A Fool

2. Clean

3. Here Comes The Comedown

4. Spiked

5. Sweet F.A. Reprise

LP2 - SIDE D

1. My Dark Twin *

2. Venus Child *

3. Butterfly *

4. Pick Yourself Up *

* Previously unreleased