Love & Theft

Howdy,

Welcome to the Love & Theft blog. Firstly, I think it’s important to set the field clear. We are a record label. We are also a music services company. First and foremost, much like our esteemed readers, we’re music fans. We are also, much like our esteemed readers, acutely aware of the various pitfalls associated with running an ‘impartial’ and ‘unbiased’ music journalism front, and yet quite explicitly having an agenda, and, more specifically, something to sell.

We make no bones about this.

After much deliberation on tone, spill and scone, we have reached a kind of entente, whereby all alliances and agendas shall be laid out clear. If we are working with a band/artist/festival/label/pastry chef etc. we write about, such allegiances will be forthcoming. We will spell check, wherever possible, and to the best of our knowledge, offer impartial critique, heavily opinionated ‘analysis’ and average punctuation in rhapsodic fashion – if nothing else, then as slightly-more-than-half-arsed homage to the greater music writers of our time. If we get lazy, please let us know.

Sadly, this reads more like a disclaimer than a preamble, so let’s just get down to bi’ness.

xx

L&T

P.S. Credit due to kk.presidente, Jason Mildren, Julian Dunne, Jason Morrison, Dobe Newton,  Planet Jumper (singular and plural), Robert Christgau, and Face.