(Brian Molko, Yahoo Music, September 16th 2013)
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| Photo credit: album cover, Joseph Llanes (4), edit by Silke |
The work on “Loud like love” kinda started by accident. The band were in the studio to record singles, but they were having such a good time and liked the producer, so they thought they just should keep going. Actually some of the songs on the album were originally written by Brian for a possible solo album, but he contributed them to the new Placebo album.
“Loud like love” was recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by Adam Noble. It reached no. 13 in the UK Albums Chart.
Three singles were released from the album: “Too many friends”, “Loud like love” and “A million little pieces”.
The release of the record was promoted with a live stream. “Loud like love TV“ was a world premiere, because it was the first time ever that a band has produced, curated and streamed a global live TV show. The event was broadcasted from YouTube Space London on 16th September 2013 and surprised the fans with new and exclusive content, interviews, an extensive question and answer session with all band members and interesting facts about the collaborators behind the album.
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https://bit.ly/2UJ2Ks1
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| Screenshot from Loud like love TV |
”The record is called 'Loud like love' but it doesn’t have ten love songs on it: this is Placebo World so of course we’re going to explore the more dark recesses of emotion – obsession, jealousy, alienation, heartbreak, abandon – and even the absence of love and the effect that has on a human being”, he explained the album in an interview with The Music in September 2013.
In another interview Brian said that he sees “Loud like love” as a collection of ten short stories with a unifying theme that approaches the subject from ten different angles (Hunger, August 2013). Brian and Stefan both stated several times that they were very proud of the album and that they think it is their most honest and vulnerable release to date.
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01. Loud like love https://bit.ly/2ycaPcY ๐ต02. Scene of the crime https://bit.ly/3abYLa1 ๐ต
03. Too many friends https://bit.ly/3cecJc2 ๐ต
04. Hold on to me https://bit.ly/3b3Ei7v ๐ต
05. Rob the bank https://bit.ly/2JYGOjB ๐ต
06. A million little pieces https://bit.ly/2XzBlHZ ๐ต
07. Exit wounds https://bit.ly/2JZQSsH ๐ต
08. Purify https://bit.ly/34tLvLO ๐ต
09. Begin the end https://bit.ly/33FFaN1 ๐ต
10. Bosco https://bit.ly/2V4ucxW ๐ต
The Chinese version of the album swaps out “Rob the bank“ with “Pity party (of one)“
– Pity party (of one) https://bit.ly/3b5fZpY ๐ต
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| Photo credit: Heiko Laschitzki |
๐ข "'Loud like love' is very eclectic and textured and layered. I think it's more varied and more adventurous. We took a lot more risks with this record. In terms of the emotions in the lyrics I think it's our most honest and vulnerable album to date.''
(Bangkok Post, August 18th 2013)
๐ข “The album explores how love can be violent, brutal and disorientating, and how the absence of it can lead people to behave in quite extreme ways. It also deals with jealousy, obsession, heartbreak and how addiction can tear relationships apart. So, it’s an album about people and the way that they interact with each other – or fail to.“
(Hunger, August 8th 2013)
๐ข ”It is love, but this being Placebo World, it’s not gonna be a collection of love songs in Michael Bublรฉ-style. My experience with love, over the past 20 years, is what I’ve pulled on to write these novellas or small fictions. It hasn’t always been about the initial rush of infatuation and that feeling of elation and euphoria that comes with falling in love. Of course, I’ve experienced that and it’s been quite mind-blowing, but sometimes you could fall in love with somebody who doesn’t know you exist or doesn’t see you that way, or doesn’t even find you attractive, and that can be quite heartbreaking. You can force somebody to leave – inadvertently – out of selfishness or behaviour. Often, the absence of love is quite loud... as in the echo or the reverb of an empty cave, the sound of silence, or the sound of your own breathing. So the album kind of deals with the transgressive love in the second track [“Scene of the Crime”], and “Too Many Friends” is about feeling disconnected and not finding the satisfaction, the fulfilment that you need from genuine human contact, through a plethora of virtual friendships. “Rob the Bank” is not about financial crisis: It’s about obsession and jealousy, very carnal, primal obsession and jealousy.”
(Pure Volume, September 12th 2013)
๐ข "We think we've made our most honest, direct, and vulnerable album to date. It's a byproduct of becoming very comfortable with who we are. I think we spent a lot of the past 20 years experimenting and trying to stretch our sound in lots of different directions. Each album has a different tone to it. This album brings all of that together. It showcases what we do best, which is emotional music that's very human and fragile. It's not necessarily about bombast, although there are powerful moments. But it's very much about tenderness."
(Yahoo Music, September 16th 2013)
๐ข ”When you think of the first song “Loud like love” being perhaps the first initial euphoric rushes of infatuation, and innocent discovery and youthful abandon, to “Scene of the Crime” being the first moment of transgression, to all the way through to the second-to-last song, which is “Begin The End,” which is the point in a relationship when you realize that you’re still in it, but you’ve passed the tipping point, that you know it’s over even though it’s not physically over yet. And then to “Bosco” which is kind of an apology and a search for redemption. I find that really interesting too, that it could be 10 songs about ten different relationships — and also the whole album could be seen as one, at different stages.”
(Vanyaland, October 18th 2013)
๐ข ”I’m really, really proud of how bare this record in terms of what it’s expressing emotionally. We really let the listener into who we are, what our soul looks like, through these songs. We’re not hiding behind anything anymore.”
(Vanyaland, October 18th 2013)
๐ข ”Everything on the record I think is very, very much inspired by real events and real emotions. The characters in these songs are created by us to convey an emotion. This album might be considered as a collection of short stories with a common theme, explored in its deepest and darkest recesses, but also celebrated. We didn’t want to do something bleak or gloomy and completely hopeless, but unfortunately, without talking about broken hearts or how people manipulate or abuse each other in relationships, you’re not really giving a full picture, I think.”
(RSI Rete Tre, 26 October 2013)
๐ ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐๐๐ก ๐ข๐ก “๐๐ข๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐” ๐
๐ข “It’s all killer, no filler. It’s really hard to describe a record but I think it still sounds like Placebo. It’s maybe heavier and more layered – more pop in places, darker in places, lighter in places. Personally, it’s the album I feel like Placebo should have made and it feels like the most complete body of work to me. So, it’s very hard to describe but it’s an exciting record.“
(Hunger, August 8th 2013)
๐ข ”There are a lot of emotions and colour in this record. It’s both emotional and exciting at the same time.”
(The Straits Times, August 20th 2013)
๐ข ”The only way I can react to this record is by a general feeling since I can’t analyse it. I felt that this is the record that I’ve always heard in my head for what a Placebo record should sound like. This is the most successful transfer of idea to record so for me I truly feel it’s our best record.”
๐ข "We think we've made our most honest, direct, and vulnerable album to date. It's a byproduct of becoming very comfortable with who we are. I think we spent a lot of the past 20 years experimenting and trying to stretch our sound in lots of different directions. Each album has a different tone to it. This album brings all of that together. It showcases what we do best, which is emotional music that's very human and fragile. It's not necessarily about bombast, although there are powerful moments. But it's very much about tenderness."
(Yahoo Music, September 16th 2013)
๐ข ”When you think of the first song “Loud like love” being perhaps the first initial euphoric rushes of infatuation, and innocent discovery and youthful abandon, to “Scene of the Crime” being the first moment of transgression, to all the way through to the second-to-last song, which is “Begin The End,” which is the point in a relationship when you realize that you’re still in it, but you’ve passed the tipping point, that you know it’s over even though it’s not physically over yet. And then to “Bosco” which is kind of an apology and a search for redemption. I find that really interesting too, that it could be 10 songs about ten different relationships — and also the whole album could be seen as one, at different stages.”
(Vanyaland, October 18th 2013)
๐ข ”I’m really, really proud of how bare this record in terms of what it’s expressing emotionally. We really let the listener into who we are, what our soul looks like, through these songs. We’re not hiding behind anything anymore.”
(Vanyaland, October 18th 2013)
๐ข ”Everything on the record I think is very, very much inspired by real events and real emotions. The characters in these songs are created by us to convey an emotion. This album might be considered as a collection of short stories with a common theme, explored in its deepest and darkest recesses, but also celebrated. We didn’t want to do something bleak or gloomy and completely hopeless, but unfortunately, without talking about broken hearts or how people manipulate or abuse each other in relationships, you’re not really giving a full picture, I think.”
(RSI Rete Tre, 26 October 2013)
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| Photo credit: Heiko Laschitzki, |
๐ข “It’s all killer, no filler. It’s really hard to describe a record but I think it still sounds like Placebo. It’s maybe heavier and more layered – more pop in places, darker in places, lighter in places. Personally, it’s the album I feel like Placebo should have made and it feels like the most complete body of work to me. So, it’s very hard to describe but it’s an exciting record.“
(Hunger, August 8th 2013)
๐ข ”There are a lot of emotions and colour in this record. It’s both emotional and exciting at the same time.”
(The Straits Times, August 20th 2013)
๐ข ”The only way I can react to this record is by a general feeling since I can’t analyse it. I felt that this is the record that I’ve always heard in my head for what a Placebo record should sound like. This is the most successful transfer of idea to record so for me I truly feel it’s our best record.”
(Stefan, Bandwagon, August 2013)
๐ข ”Equally, the title track ‘Loud like love’, was written at the same time as ‘Bosco’, and they became sort of the bookends for the album. ‘Loud like love’ talks about the origins of love. I think that’s a very interesting concept because it’s an emotion we can’t touch but it’s so real and different for everyone. I relate to certain songs because of my own relationships and problems that I’ve had but I also see certain songs and I go “Jesus! Brian, have you been to that place? That’s a f*ckng dark place.” And he’s like “yeah haven’t you?” No, not that dark.”
(Hanger, September 4th 2013)
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๐ข ”Equally, the title track ‘Loud like love’, was written at the same time as ‘Bosco’, and they became sort of the bookends for the album. ‘Loud like love’ talks about the origins of love. I think that’s a very interesting concept because it’s an emotion we can’t touch but it’s so real and different for everyone. I relate to certain songs because of my own relationships and problems that I’ve had but I also see certain songs and I go “Jesus! Brian, have you been to that place? That’s a f*ckng dark place.” And he’s like “yeah haven’t you?” No, not that dark.”
(Hanger, September 4th 2013)
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