But that's the thing about break-ups and, by extension, break-up records: At the time each feels like a cataclysm to end all cataclysms, the definitive statement on cessation. Yet in light of the next one-- and, God help us, chances are there will be a next one-- all the ones before can seem quaint, trite, overblown, and anything but definitive.
So it makes sense that Assbring should craft another ode to getting over it, just as it makes a certain sad kind of sense that the gal who sang of being sad all day long and thinking about being sad all night long and suggested loneliness can be pretty would again find herself in a position to make such a record.
Refreshingly, Love Is Not Pop does indeed make what came before it seem quaint, representing a significant maturation for El Perro Del Mar both in sonics and sentiments. If Look! For one thing, she initiates this one.
Getting dumped never sounded better. From there it's on to piano-and-groove album highlight "Change of Heart" and the dubbed-out midnight excursion "L Is for Love", its echoes suggesting the infinity of a night spent teasing apart those great questions of life and love in search of an elemental clarity. Least of all pop? Yet El Perro's brand of pop is certainly easy to love, and a cozy sort of organic warmth-- characterized by thick, resonant drums and keys, and treated guitars that seem to lurch and lumber with the slightly irregular rhythms of real life-- pervades the new record.
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