Track Listing

  1. Moonlit Suite (her Room)
  2. Journeyman
  3. Two Of A Kind
  4. Look At The Waves
  5. Memory Lane
  6. A New Low In Getting High
  7. Love And Redemption
  8. There Is No Sound
  9. Song To Humanity
  10. When It Comes

  11. Journeyman (Anton Newcombe Mix)

PSR060

The Lovetones
“Dimensions”

Released February 24 , 2009
Produced by Robert Campanella, Liam Judson, and Matthew J. Tow
All songs Written by Matthew J. Tow (Control) except for "A New Low In Getting High" written by Matthew J Tow / Anton Newcombe (Control)

About

"A trip from start to finish." - Rolling Stone

The Lovetones released their debut album, Be What You Want in 2002 through Bomp! Records, creating a palpable buzz amongst critics from the like of Creem and Rolling Stone magazine. The latter hailed mainman Matther J Tow's songwriting worthy of Ray Davies, Bowie, Lennon and McCartney: a bold statement, yet in his case, completely justified.

After enjoying the ciritical success of Be What You Want, touring Australia extensively and even supporting Morrissey during his first ever solo Australian tour, Tow joined The Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2003 and contributed two brilliant tracks to their sonic mastery, ...And This Is Our Music.

Tow's opening track "Starcleaner" later also appeared on The Brian Jonestown Massacre retrospective Tepid Peppermint Wonderland. In the same year, UK based Fire Records invited The Lovetones to contribute to the James Joyce Chamber Music project alongside Mercury Rev, Sonic Youth, and REM's Peter Buck. 2004 saw the release of the Stars EP, coinciding with The Lovetones supporting The Brian Jonestown Massacre on their infamous and now legendary tour of Australia.

The second album Meditations was released through New York's Tee Pee Records in late 2005, revealing an stunning development in Tow's songwriting and providing a soundscape of radiant pop, ethereal psychedelia and truly remarkable vocal melodies that arched for the stars. Soulful and sincere, Meditations nodded gently and respectfully to the pop masters of the sixties whilst never lacking in original vision.

Returning from triumphant shows in the US in late 2005 and also SXSW 2006, The Lovetones toured to support Meditations' Australian release in May 2006. June 2006 saw The Lovetones complete a crazed European tour across 12 countries with The Brian Jonestown Massacre in support of Meditations' release there through Tee Pee/Cargo Records, culminating in a rave album review in respected UK magazine Uncut.

The Lovetones also managed to record their third album Axiom during 2006 with fervent sessions split between Figment Studios in Hollywood and the Sydney Opera House Recording Studio. More extensive touring in the US and Australia followed.

Released in Australia in November 2008 and now set for a stateside release in February 2009, Dimensions is The Lovetones' fourth studio album and the latest chapter in the indie psychedelic pop legacy of frontman Matthew Tow, who remains one of Austalia's most underrated songwriters. The album was recorded in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, mixed in Los Angeles by Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre, Quarter After, Black Angels) and mastered by William Bowden (one of Australia's finest mastering engineers).

 


Reviews/Press Quotes

"Cosmic and full of big, windy spaces...lush psych rock...sensual sonic grains and gusty sweeps of shoegaze...an entrancing and richly textured listen."
- San Francisco Bay Guardian (March 2009)


"Enjoyable effort from Australia's The Lovetones...sonic flutters by way of mellotron, Moog, flute, bells, keys, Byrdsian guitar injections"
- Parasites And Sycophants (March 2009)


"a super-groovy psychedelic pop outfit...recalls the Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward in “Song to Humanity”...It’s all quite lovely..." - Bullz-Eye (March 2009)

"Bowie and Beatles references...hazy sonic bliss, full of lush reverb that sets the guitars chiming and pumps... trimmings that place the songs above mere imitations of '60 garage pop." - Blurt Magazine (March 2009)

 

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