{"id":77655,"date":"2019-04-02T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=77655"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:23:43","slug":"review-martha-love-keeps-kicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-martha-love-keeps-kicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Martha \u2013 Love Keeps Kicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77656\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-30x30.jpg 30w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Love-Keeps-Kicking-Album-Art-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The darkest depths of Durham are home to <strong>Martha<\/strong>,\u00a0a DIY punk band whose song-writing rules are; keep it honest, keep it relatable and by all means keep it catchy. After two albums and a handful of singles describing the trials and tribulations of their home, they set out to explore new horizons, touring the world and on \u2018<em>Love Keeps Kicking<\/em>\u2019 they just can\u2019t wait to tell you about what they discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons with 2016\u2019s absolutely delightful \u2018<em>Blisters In The Pit of My Heart<\/em>\u2019 are easy and you could be forgiven for thinking nothing much has changed. You still get the four-way vocals, the songs are still interlaced with a big twangy lead guitar sound, everything is presented with a frank, honesty and the wonderfully jaunty feel persists. Yet, just by adding a little maturity and confidence they have elevated their songwriting and in doing so have made the record of their career.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Martha -  Love Keeps Kicking OFFICIAL VIDEO\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/alvyveBeqEw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With four songwriters contributing, you get a real mixture of flavours (and accents) throughout the album. One minute you encounter the lovely drum-driven \u2018<em>Orange Juice<\/em>\u2019 with its schoolyard lyricism, the next you\u2019re confronted with the kitchen-sink drama of \u2018<em>Into This<\/em>\u2019, but no matter what they\u2019re describing, it feels organic and almost alarmingly catchy.<\/p>\n<p>With everything of such high calibre it\u2019s hard to pick highlights but songs such as \u2018<em>Mini Was A Pre-Teen Arsonist<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>The Void<\/em>\u2019, where all the vocalists complement each other, really play on the band\u2019s chemistry and it\u2019s joyous to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the overall sound is less noisy than their previous records. You still get the impact on songs like the short attack of \u2018<em>Wrestlemania VIII<\/em>\u2019 or the chaotic \u2018<em>Brutalism By The River<\/em>\u2019 but just by toning down the punkier edge, <strong>Martha<\/strong> have made their music more accessible. However, they&#8217;ve done it without compromising on what made their prior work so brilliant. <em>\u2018Love Keeps Kicking\u2019<\/em> pulls delicately at the heartstrings while having an enormous amount of fun.<\/p>\n<p>4.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Love Keeps Kicking&#8217;<\/em> by <strong>Martha<\/strong> is released on 5th April on <strong>Big Scary Monsters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthapunx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marthadiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarthaDIY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marthadiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/marthadiy.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Ian Kenworthy (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhisperingSand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WhisperingSand<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2018Love Keeps Kicking\u2019 pulls delicately at the heartstrings while having an enormous amount of fun&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":77656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,2884,15621,16773,7614],"class_list":["post-77655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-big-scary-monsters","tag-ian-kenworthy","tag-love-keeps-kicking","tag-martha"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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