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The Love Substitutes

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Belgian guitar-driven collective featuring Rudy Trouvé, Craig Ward, Mauro Pawlowski and Bert Lenaerts; known for improvisational noisy rock, studio-loop experiments and ties to the Antwerp/dEUS scene.

Members include Rudy Trouvé, Craig Ward, Mauro Pawlowski and Bert Lenaerts (all referenced in DeBaser reviews). Rudy Trouvé founded the HeavenHotel label and has collaborated with Lou Barlow and Steve Albini (stated in interviews). Reviews describe the group as improvisational, noisy, shoegaze- and psychedelic-leaning, performing few but intense live shows and recording improvisation-heavy studio work.

Fans and reviewers describe The Love Substitutes as a loose Belgian guitar collective tied to the Antwerp scene and members of dEUS. Their work emphasizes improvisation, noise, loops and occasional sweet melodic moments. Live shows are unpredictable, theatrical and highly praised.

For:Fans of guitar-driven experimental rock, noise/shoegaze listeners, followers of the Antwerp/dEUS scene.

 The Love Substitutes, live, improvise a crazy, dissonant and composed rock, instinctive and clear, brilliant and poetic, schizophrenic and dense, distorted and sweet.

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 The Love Substitutes are a band for music store browsers. Like the people that go to record stores to endlessly browse in the collection, and end up buying a CD they already have, just because it is such a great CD to buy.

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 Love? Who knows... (Stares at the empty chairs in front of him for a long time). "Love... is good. Yes. Love is good."

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