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Artist: PATHOLOGICAL LOVERS
-WON for Best Alternative Group, Music NL Awards 2010
- WON Atlantis Music Prize, Scope Magazine 2011
Title: CALLING ALL FAVOURS
Release Date: Dec. 18, 2009
Format: CD
UPC: 75020992627
Catalogue: PL002
File Under: Rock/Pop/Alternative
Selling Points:
-Live performance on Q with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio One during JUNO week 2010.
-Storm Your Little CBC Radio 3 Track of the Day (Jan. 13, 2010)
-#1 CHMR FM 93.5 Top 30 (Jan. 27, 2010-Feb. 12, 2010)
-Featuring The Atlantic String Quartet, and master trumpeter Patrick Boyle
-Change is Good and 101 Fictions in regular rotation on OZFM in NL
-Opened for Matt Mayes, Holy Fuck, Sleepless Nights, Grady, C'mon, Feist,
-Jody Richardson has been described by Sarah Harmer as,"One of the best songwriters in Canada"
-Video for Best Served Directed by Jordan Canning for Get Set Films
-Named forerunner for "Album of the Year" with The Newfoundland Herald
Testimonials:
“In the mid-1990's when I should have been listening to Built to Spill or the Replacements or Guided By Voices or any number of amazing bands, I was foolishly getting down with major label grunge and other varieties of corporate bullshit.
Now that I'm older and wiser I could lament this wasted time or I could just go see a Pathological Lovers show. Lost youth regained. Genuine cool. Happiness guaranteed.
-Matt McQuaid
Holy F*uck
“Buckle Up. The Pathological Lovers are like an epic rock roller coaster ride through brilliant and unpredictable tight arrangements that are carried by riding a wave of innovative and mind boggling intelligent melodies. Take the best of the operatic rock of Queen, combine it with the catchy pop rock sounds of Weezer, mix in the straight sounds of The Police, put it all in a shot glass and drink about six of them, and you’ll be getting close to a Pathological Lovers buzz. Their albums are fantastic but their live show will magnetize you to the stage.”
–Romi Mayes Juno Nominee
“Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.”
-Keith Power
Composer for Iron Man 2 / Hawaii 5-0
“With bizarrely charismatic stage presence and brutally honest, enemy-of-cliché lyrics, Jody Richardson has fronted several dynamite east coast groups. Here with The Lovers, it has all gone to the next level. The band is a bunch of wickedly inventive technicians with better motor skills than you or me.Hearing these guys screw with scales and time signatures while somehow keeping it straight ahead rock and roll is a saucy treat.
Some of the music is hard and fast and takes effort and the effort is made every time.
Stay near the doors, they are going to burn the place down.”
-Johnny Harris
Comedian/Actor
"A frenetic, energetic musical cornucopia with great songs and who kick it to the max every show they play, do yourself a favour. The Pathological Lovers are the best rock and roll secret from Newfoundland and Labrador, but once you get in on the secret, you'll love them so much you'll want to tell the world."
-Kevin Kelly
Host-CHMR-FM
“Jody Richardson's vocal style has so much nuance, colour and variety that it covers all genres. Everyone is captivated by his range and the way he turns a phrase. Always direct, even when ironically humorous, his lyrics tap the psychology of our emotions and the poignancy of our thoughts. The band, although individually superb, work together to give you the feeling you are flying down the railway pulled by the best engine on the line.”
-Rick Sacks
“...One of the 10 bands that ‘Rock The Rock’”
-The Globe And Mail
“…With Pathological Lovers, Jody Richardson seems to have captured the immediacy and interesting song structure and subject matter coupled with brilliant musicianship and presentation that were the best parts of Thomas Trio & The Red Albino. They are exploding in Newfoundland...”
-Craig Norris
CBC Radio 3
“...Calling All Favours explodes with musical goodness, demands our attention and captivates us with genuine emotion and sensitivity; carefully woven into catchy melodies and superb lyrics. It perfectly captures the energetic intensity of PL’s on-stage presence. Like all great artists, the PLs effectively beguile us into believing that their music is simple, but upon closer inspection there is so much more to it…”
-NXEW.com
“An early favourite for album of the year 2010.”
-Newfoundland Herald
- FULL COURT PRESS
Discography
They're Playing Our Chord - EP
Calling All Favours - Debut LP
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Bio
Nominated for Best Video and Best Alternative Recording - ECMA 2011
Calling All Favours- Best Alternative Recording
Music NL Awards 2010
Winner of the Atlantic Music Prize - 2010
Favorite Alternative Band - 2010 Best of St. John's. Scope Magazine.
Pathological Lovers have the enviable ability to compose concise radio-friendly, hook-laden gems, yet also to unfold sprawling musical epics that leave the listener dazzled and exhausted. They can rivet a live audience with fearless tightrope improv, and pack a dance floor with fist-pumping anthems.
They are a band of talented musicians whose ethic to push the limits of sound structure and quantity of content has made them a forerunner in the next new wave of influential creators. Their work is rooted in the lyrical quality of singer-songwriters but, through tireless development and collective invigoration, their pieces attain a level of density and scope that can make people literally scream out loud.
They make music that has an impressive shelf life – staying in your stereo, car or house long after most. And that’s empirical wisdom, there. They’re for driving fast to, feeling fragile to and picking yourself back up to. Their songs are about hurt and healing, success and failure. PLs put a lot of heart and mind into their playing, and the loyalty of their fans attests to it.
There has been a real momentum building lately with the PLs and as they begin pre-production on their second full length album "We Can't Even Lose" all hands are excited for what's to come.
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