More Info
Rick Rubin guided Love and Rockets to a return to more guitar-based songs for 1996’s Sweet F.A.
While the band were living and working at Rubin’s studio mansion, a fire broke out, which resulted in the band losing all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well. A burnt guitar plucked from the debris is on the album’s cover.
The resulting album was inspired by some of their earliest influences – The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can. It spins tales of passion and loss, carried on a fluid, moody throb. Undulating, hypnotic rhythms twine around melancholy lyrics which examine life at a primal level, as ethereal electronic effects play counterpoint to earthquake reverberating guitars. The reissue features four previously unreleased tracks.
Tracklist
A1. Sweet F.A.
A2. Judgement Day
A3. Use Me
A4. Fever
A5. Sweet Lover Hangover
B1. Pearl
B2. Shelf Life
B3. Sad And Beautiful World
B4. Natacha
C1. Words Of A Fool
C2. Clean
C3. Here Comes The Comedown
C4. Spiked
C5. Sweet F.A. Reprise
D1. My Dark Twin *
D2. Venus Child *
D3. Butterfly *
D4. Pick Yourself Up *
* Previously unreleased