Placebo wraps
up a brief North American tour – the first since 2007 – on Friday at Club Nokia
in Los Angeles.
Last year, the
London based alt-rock band put out its acclaimed seventh album Loud Like
Love via Universal Music Enterprises.
A success throughout Europe and Asia,
it reached the top five in 10 countries, including a few No. 1 entries.
Together
since the mid-1990s, the trio has sold more than 12 million records worldwide
and is best known Stateside for a pair of top 40 hits on modern rock radio: “Pure
Morning” (1998) and “Infra-Red” (2006). They’ve racked up 10 UK top 20 hits,
plus several others to date.
In a video
interview accompanying the latest album’s release, Brian Molko said that the lyrics
this time around touched upon addiction and social media, but that he wrote about
people rather than those specific things. Essentially, the singer/guitarist concentrated
on relationships and how people relate to each other.
“First track ‘Loud
Like Love’ is sort of celebratory, but then it gets dark from track 2, onwards.
I think we’re just attracted to melancholy and dysfunction in general. It’s more
interesting to write about.”
The unusual, riveting
music video for first single “Too Many Friends” was directed by Saman Kesh and features
narration by American author Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, The Rules of
Attraction, American Psycho).
View it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5cZvbOisk4
Provocative
as always, highlights amid the solid collection include a haunting “Exit
Wounds,” an intriguing, Radiohead-esque “Begin the End” (which clocks in at six
minutes and finds Molko calmly signing, “knock me off my feet like heroin”), the
dramatic, string-laden “Bosco” and propulsive title track.
Placebo plays
Oct. 24 at Club Nokia in LA. Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $43.50 and
available through www.axs.com. The Moth &
The Flame opens.
www.placebo.co.uk
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