🟠ANNIVERSARY: 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 🟠

⭐️“𝑾𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆.” – Brian Molko⭐️

🟠🎊Placebo's seventh studio album 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 was released nine years ago today, on September 13th, 2013🎊🟠
What this album is? A collection of ten songs, started with a super powerful and hopeful love anthem in 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 and closed with the deepest of heartbreak and regret in 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨, with a full spectrum of emotions which can accompany a relationship, in between.
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “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.”
(𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝐴𝑢𝑔'13)

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes, album and singles covers / edit by Olga

🟠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 whole concept of the 𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲, including the cover, was created by 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 of 𝑰𝑵𝑻𝑹𝑶 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐 while 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑳𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔 worked on photography for the promotional campaign.
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “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."
(𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒, 2013)

🟠A while ago, I have already told you about 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑳𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔’ 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕 with Placebo at the breathtaking location of 𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐳 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬, California:
➡️ https://bit.ly/3JVvxPc

🟠The album was available in different formats: 𝐂𝐃, 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐞 𝐂𝐃 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐕𝐃 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐀𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬, 𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐬𝐞𝐭, and 𝟏𝟐" 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐥, which was released three days later, on September 16th.
The Chinese version of the album contains – instead of 𝐑𝐨𝐛 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 – the song 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 (𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐧𝐞) that is also included in the box set as a bonus track.

🟠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 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐕 was streamed live globally from three YouTube Studios, in 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐲𝐨, and 𝐋𝐀. 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.

Photo credit: Alex Weston

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨: 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐕 - 𝟏𝟔.𝟎𝟗.𝟏𝟑 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰
➡ https://bit.ly/3QuunfZ

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “It is love, but this being Placebo World, it’s not gonna be a collection of love songs in Michael Bublé 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.
(𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒, 𝑆𝑒𝑝'13)

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 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.
(𝐸𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑡’13)

As 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 said in an interview with Hunger in September 2013, these two songs “𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚.”
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐑𝐀𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
➡ https://bit.ly/3AnK6rx

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨 (𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)
➡ https://bit.ly/3pmdRml

Photo credit: Getty Images

🟠It’s interesting that some of the songs were originally written by Brian for his 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 which he was thinking about back at the time.

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 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.
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑙𝑦, 𝐽𝑢𝑙'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.

📢𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: 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.
(𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑟, 𝐴𝑢𝑔'13)

📢𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: “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, 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘.”
(𝑃𝑜𝑝𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑁𝑜𝑣'13)

✨Time flies, and soon, Brian and Stefan can talk of 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔… And 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨 has been born of their life experiences from the latest decade… But all the strongest emotions represented in 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 are timeless so they will stay relevant and touch people’s souls for decades to come.

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♦️𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄♦️

"𝙒𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙬𝙚'𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩, 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙪𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚."
(Brian Molko, Yahoo Music, September 16th 2013)

Photo credit: album cover, Joseph Llanes (4), edit by Silke

Today is the 🔺𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘🔺 of Placebo's seventh studio album “𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄”, it was released eight years ago on September 13th 2013. The limited edition includes a DVD with eight live versions of the songs.

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.

🎥 𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗩
https://bit.ly/2UJ2Ks1

Screenshot from Loud like love TV

The album consists of ten songs, about half of them were originally written for a solo project that Brian wanted to do at that time.
”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.

💿 𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗡 – 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠

01. Loud like love https://bit.ly/2ycaPcY 🎵
02. Scene of the crime https://bit.ly/3abYLa1 🎵
03. Too many friends https://bit.ly/3cecJc2 🎵
04. Hold on to me https://bit.ly/3b3Ei7v 🎵
05. Rob the bank https://bit.ly/2JYGOjB 🎵
06. A million little pieces https://bit.ly/2XzBlHZ 🎵
07. Exit wounds https://bit.ly/2JZQSsH 🎵
08. Purify https://bit.ly/34tLvLO 🎵
09. Begin the end https://bit.ly/33FFaN1 🎵
10. Bosco https://bit.ly/2V4ucxW 🎵

The Chinese version of the album swaps out “Rob the bank“ with “Pity party (of one)“
– Pity party (of one) https://bit.ly/3b5fZpY 🎵

Photo credit: Heiko Laschitzki

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘“ 📌
 📢 "'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)

📢 “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)

📢 ”It is love, but this being Placebo World, it’s not gonna be a collection of love songs in Michael Bublé-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)

📢 "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)

📢 ”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)

📢 ”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)

📢 ”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)

Photo credit: Heiko Laschitzki,

📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘” 📌
📢 “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)

📢 ”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)

📢 ”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)

📢 ”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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