๐ ๐Placebo's seventh studio album ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ was released nine years ago today, on September 13th, 2013๐๐
What this album is? A collection of ten songs, started with a super powerful and hopeful love anthem in ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ and closed with the deepest of heartbreak and regret in ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐จ, with a full spectrum of emotions which can accompany a relationship, in between.
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: “It’s ten songs long, about 46 minutes and it’s very much sequenced like an old vinyl record – it definitely has a side A and side B. I guess it’s Placebo’s very personal take and exploration on the most written about subject in the history of popular song. For me, I kind of see it as a collection of ten short stories with a unifying theme that approaches the subject from ten different angles. It 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.”
(๐ป๐ข๐๐๐๐, ๐ด๐ข๐'13)
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| Photo credit: Joseph Llanes, album and singles covers / edit by Olga |
Three singles were released from the album: ๐๐จ๐จ ๐๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฌ, ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐, and ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ฌ.
๐ The whole concept of the ๐จ๐น๐ป๐พ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ, including the cover, was created by ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ of ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐น๐ถ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐๐ while ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ worked on photography for the promotional campaign.
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: “I think we felt that there was a certain amount of rebirth going on within the band itself, and that that should be reflected in the artwork."
(๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐, 2013)
๐ A while ago, I have already told you about ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐’ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ with Placebo at the breathtaking location of ๐๐๐ฌ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ณ ๐๐จ๐๐ค๐ฌ, California:
➡️ https://bit.ly/3JVvxPc
๐ The album was available in different formats: ๐๐, ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ฉ๐๐๐ค ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฌ, ๐๐จ๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐๐ญ, and ๐๐" ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ฒ๐ฅ, which was released three days later, on September 16th.
The Chinese version of the album contains – instead of ๐๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ค – the song ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ (๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐) that is also included in the box set as a bonus track.
๐ To celebrate Loud Like Love's release, Placebo’s crew came up with the idea of online TV show. On September 16th, 2013, the day when LLL was fully released worldwide in all its formats, 90-minute live show titled ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ was streamed live globally from three YouTube Studios, in ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐จ๐ง, ๐๐จ๐ค๐ฒ๐จ, and ๐๐. It was the first YouTube live stream of its kind.
The show featured, among other unique moments, Placebo performing songs from the album and some older songs (partly chosen by the audience through online poll), band interviews and guest appearances by people who collaborated with Placebo on the making of the album.
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๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ: ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ - ๐๐.๐๐.๐๐ ๐
๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฐ
➡ https://bit.ly/3QuunfZ
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: “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 behavior. 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.
(๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐, ๐๐๐'13)
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: We wrote the first track on the album, "Loud Like Love," and the last one, "Bosco," at exactly the same time. They couldn't sound more different. They're basically polar opposites. "Loud Like Love" in its recorded version is a very optimistic and upbeat, enthusiastic song about unity and togetherness. "Bosco" is quite a sad story about a relationship that's been torn apart by addiction.
(๐ธ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก’13)
As ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง said in an interview with Hunger in September 2013, these two songs “๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.”
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฌ, ๐๐๐๐
➡ https://bit.ly/3AnK6rx
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐จ (๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง)
➡ https://bit.ly/3pmdRml
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๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: I was working on some songs in my home studio or “garden shed”- every man needs a garden shed – and I was trying to write songs for me, without worrying about it having to be at a certain standard for the band. So I was playing acoustic guitars and piano and the only rule I had was that I could use regular guitars but I couldn’t use any distortion. It helped me write in a different way. For example, [new song] ‘Scene Of The Crime’ started with an oboe sample I found on the Internet – I just found it completely wild and started writing the song around it.
(๐โ๐ ๐น๐๐ฆ, ๐ฝ๐ข๐'13)
Then, the band went to the studio to record some singles, but they got so much inspired that - a bit unexpectedly for themselves - started working on a full record.
๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: For this record the hook that got me back in was when we all got together and wrote the title track [Loud Like Love]. It's the track that got us all excited.
(๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ด๐ข๐'13)
๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: “I think it’s a combination of styles and leanings. […] We were finally ready to explore all these emotions and soundscapes and we felt we could do them with confidence and ease, something we couldn’t necessarily do in the past. I think everything we’ve been through has made us stronger, you know, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐.”
(๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐ฃ'13)
✨Time flies, and soon, Brian and Stefan can talk of ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐… And ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐จ has been born of their life experiences from the latest decade… But all the strongest emotions represented in ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ are timeless so they will stay relevant and touch people’s souls for decades to come.
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