Like Kiss my Jazz, the Love Substitutes is a band suited to the EP format. 15 minute title track finds the uncommon ground between the debut's British folk sea shanty stylings and a post-punk disco groove. When they get out the horns, you know they'll be here a while. A pleasure. 3 b-side songs are shorter, post-punk skronk improvs, but still in a pop groove. It suits them. Craig and Rudy seem to have taken this release in hand. In general, there's something mapped out to Craig's work (except for the saxophone playing), there's something casual to Rudy's. But here they work very well together.
