{"product_id":"shesus-loves-you-loves-you-not","title":"Loves You\u001aLoves You Not","description":"Shesus: Heather Newkirk (vocals); Michelle Bodine, Kim Carter (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Craig Nichols (keyboards, drums, percussion, background vocals); Kari Murphy (bass, background vocals).\nPersonnel: Michelle Bodine (vocals, guitar, keyboards, tambourine); Kim \"Car Crash\" Carter (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Kari Murphy (vocals); Austin Brown (Theremin); Karl Sanders (background vocals).\nRecording information: Ultrasuede Studio.\nUnknown Contributor Role: Michelle Bodine.\nShesus' debut album, Loves You...Loves You Not, is one of those releases that calls for a variety of adjectives -- and those adjectives range from melodic and poppy to dissonant, abrasive, and discordant. The mostly female alternative pop\/rock outfit is coming from a punky power pop aesthetic; that's the thing they have in common with '80s new wavers like the Go-Go's, the B-52's, and Blondie as well as '90s artists such as Letters to Cleo, Eve's Plum, Bif Naked, and Elastica. But Shesus is far from a carbon of those artists, even though some of them are among the Dayton, OH, band's influences. Shesus, for all their girlish and melodic poppiness, are also noisy and abrasive -- they're as poppy as the Go-Go's or No Doubt (who, arguably, picked up where Blondie left off), but they also share Lydia Lunch's and Courtney Love's appreciation of discordance. It should be noted that when the Go-Go's started out in 1978, they were a lot more raggedy than the band they had evolved into by the time they recorded their first album, Beauty and the Beat, in 1981 -- so Shesus has something in common with very early, pre-IRS Records Go-Go's as well as the smoother, more polished band they became. Much to Shesus' credit, they pull off the poppy\/discordant contrast impressively well; it's a combination that makes for infectious listening on tracks like \"B-Side Radio,\" \"Confrontation,\" and \"The More You Laugh.\" From original material to an inspired remake of David Bowie's \"Hang on to Yourself,\" Loves You...Loves You Not is a very promising debut. ~ Alex Henderson","brand":"Shesus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44563163742441,"sku":"ELZVV3-40AM-00","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/Shesus-Loves-YouLoves-You-Not_NDFJz.jpg?v=1759179938","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/shesus-loves-you-loves-you-not","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}