Glitzine (website)

Mmm the whiff of whiskey breath and the stomp of rhythm and blues! One finds here a jolly ride round rude country riffs and smoky happy-hour bar-room crooning. These Swede traditional rock n rollers offer a short bundle of tunes that leaves a bright ambience and satisfying mood.

Contents consist of a familiar, rootsy, unkempt song structure and expected pace. I like track 4 'Glad Handing Dandy'. Its foot stomping opening, lonely guitar and bar punters' merry hand claps guide us through a modest drunken pub jingle that hints at development but never delivers it! The finale 'Bittersweet Goodbye' winds everything down heedfully. It is a farewell sentiment that is lyrically and musically heartfelt.

Overall 'Breakfast for Champions' is short on tracks and short of variety, thus perhaps not innovative enough to make much of a notable impact on the finicky modern listener but who's arsed? Crooning one's balls off, was and always will be a self satisfying endeavour. We have a bubbly bunch of racket makers doing what they do best. Their deep passion for rock n roll is committed and commendable - churning out music that is catchy, fun time, swingy, traditional and damn well sounds like they're having a grin doing it. Old rockers n smellys will feel right toasty and cosy!

/ Kiran the Killer


Hard 'N Heavy (website)

(4,5 out of 5)

Ok, this time I'm gonna start at the end. I can not understand why, in an era where old-time sounds and rythms have become more and more appreciated, a band like the Love Injections haven't been able to land a record deal and spread their music all over the world. In their music you'll find the same kind of seed that is a major ingredient in the sound of bands like The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rose Tattoo - i.e. a mixture of seventies boogie n' roll with hints of southern rock and blues, all rearing their ugly heads in these five kick-ass rock songs.
Well, to tell the truth the Love Injections had a shot back in 2002 since a couple of American labels had asked for a demo in digital form [actually they wanted to release our first demo as an official album] but vocalist KJ's band didn't feel the need to follow that through, preferring to produce the next demo "3 Sheets To The Wind" with the help of mr. Chips Kiesby [not exactly true - mr. Kiesby only expressed an interest in producing our debut album at this time], known for his work with The Hellacopters and Sator, and finally this demo "Breakfast For Champions" that fully proves the band's technical qualities and artistic intentions.
The Love Injections are hopeless nostalgics, but nostalgic in a way that their music becomes an explosive cocktail, almost dynamitic, pure TNT, pure adrenalin strong enough to wake the dead and shake the most rigid of asses. The kind of music that the Robinson-brothers and their Black Crowes would love. "Down & Out" has a freshness and a simpleness that would give Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds a boner. And just listen to the down-right nasty blues of "Dead Weight" with its chorus displaying hints of Molly Hatchet and Black Foot. Or "Dirty Green, Black & Blue"'s hard n' roll that sounds like a continuation of the warm and wild sound of Great White and Little Ceasar.
As mentioned earlier, nothing new under the sun, but everything reeks of old-time rythms and sounds performed expertly with a genuine love for rock & roll. Perhaps the Love Injections have missed their train or perhaps they'll be the next big rock sensation, only time will tell. Listen to me - give these guys a chance or you'll be forever sorry!

/ Beppe "HM" Diana


(voto 4,5/5)

Ok, stavolta partiamo dalla fine, dunque, non riesco a capire come mai in un periodo di recupero di certe sonorità diciamo molto old fashioned, una band del carisma e delle qualità artistiche come i qui recensiti Love Injections non siano ancora riusciti a siglare uno straccio di contratto e a spargere in tutto il vecchio continente quel seme maledetto del rock'nroll settantiano di cui si fanno fieramente porta voci, quello stesso seme che riconduce sempre e comunque alle radici della musica maledetta e che vede come numi tutelari icone indiscusse del calibro di Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd o dei seminali Rose Tattoo, ovvero una riuscita mistura di boogie 'n roll, rock seventies, corroborato da sapienti influssi southern e blues che ogni tanto fanno capolino all'interno di queste cinque kickin' ass rock song. Beh, a dire proprio tutta la verità, i Love Injections la possibilità di pubblicare il loro pur bravo lp, l'avevano avuta addirittura ai tempi del primo lavoro omonimo del 2002, non a caso parecchie labels americane avevano chiesto ai cinque di poter stampare il demo in formato digitale, anche se la band del simpatico vocalist KJ Svensson ritenendo il lavoro non adatto al tanto sospirato salto di qualità, ha preferito affilare le proprie armi, rodando una formazione oramai stabile, dando alle stampe altri due lavori interlocutori come il precedente "3 Sheets To The Wind" prodotto nientemeno che da mr Chieps Kiesby, già al lavoro con band di calibro internazionale come The Hellacopters e Sator, ed il qui presente "Breakfast For Champions" che naturalmente, ci restituisce una band nel pieno delle proprie qualità tecnico/artistiche.
Già, i Love Injections sono degli intramontabili nostalgici, così nostalgici da sembrare quasi nauseabondi, anche se la loro musica è vera miscela esplosiva, quasi dinamitarda, TNT allo stato puro, energia adrenalinica in grado di far resuscitare i morti e di smuovere anche i culi più flaccidi, quella stessa musica che piacerebbe proprio ai fratelli Robinson ed ai loro Black Crows, più volte chiamati in causa sulle note della free and easy "Down & Out" song che piace proprio per la sua freschezza abbinata ad una semplicità quasi disarmante, e che farebbe accapponare la pelle anche al vecchio Izzy Stradlin e a tutti i Ju Ju Hounds, ascoltate il bluesaccio anthemico di "Dead Weight" con il suo chorus che sa tanto di Molly Hatchet e Black Foot, o l'hard'n roll di "Dirty Green, Black & Blue" che sembra trascendere dal suono caldo e selvaggio dei Great White o dei Little Caesar, e poi mi ne riparliamo.
Che dire, niente di nuovo sotto il sole, tutto suona antico e vintage, ma suona dannatamente bene, e il tutto, sentimenti in primis ed amore viscerale per il rock, viene espresso in maniera quasi impeccabile, forse i Love Injections hanno perso il loro treno, forse diventeranno la next big sensation in campo rock ed affini, solo il tempo ce lo dirà, ma se seguito il mio consiglio, è meglio che vi mettiate in contatto con i nostri al più presto, perchè in un modo o nell'altro, potreste pentirvene amaramente, non ci credete?

/ Beppe "HM" Diana


Sonic Ruin (website)

It's always killed me. Rock and Roll was more or less invented in the US. The stuff is based in the Blues and old Country. Yet in the 60's the style was taken over by the folks in the U.K., such as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, and eventually moved into the 70's and bands like Led Zep and Faces. Now, I am not speaking of anything that is a revelation to you readers, and if any of you go running out now in search of any of those bands I just mentioned, please never buy another issue of Sonic Ruin again, as you are an idiot. But what kills me is that those bands, from the U.K., chose to adopt into their singing style that Country twang, and many of them have that "U.S. of A." Blues/Country sound to their playing, yet when speaking they don't sound like any "redneck" I have ever met, and I have met a shitload. Now here I sit listening to The Love Injections... from Sweden. O.K., now they aren't the first "Rock And Roll" band I have ever heard from Sweden, and I am pretty dang sure they won't be the last. But here again, Country accents, and then they go one further: the final song on this dang thing may as well be a Replacements song, and they were from Minneapolis, Minnesota!
But anyhow, "is it good" you ask. Well, have some patience and I will tell you. I swear, some of you just have no respect for fine writing.
Yes, the Love Injections are a damn fine band. Full on Rock and Roll that would make Ron Wood, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart and any of the old guys proud, if they could give a shit to actually care about the style they helped to perfect anymore.
Opening song "Down & Out" reminds me of Georgia Satellites meeting with The Stones at a dingy bar in Memphis. O.K., I lie, I only drove through Memphis once, and it was 2 in the morning and I was on my way to Texas, so I have no idea what goes on in dingy bars in Memphis... but I can only guess. But the tune is all mid-paced groovin' guitars in that standard RnR rhythm. You know it, you can hear it in your head.
"Dead Weight" really reminds me of Faces. The tone on those guitars in the beginning is all Faces, that combo of electric and acoustic that Wood did so perfectly.
"Dirty Green, Black & Blue" starts our sounding like Generation X, but then moves into a Stonesy thing, then takes on it's own life. The song is a pure drinking tune and would have to be played to close out the night. It's the perfect song to close out and for the crowd to raise their drinks in the air to salute a raucous evening of good RnR.
The fourth tune is a little instrumental ditty of acoustic guitars and a stomping bass drum with claps. Cool little tune that you could only find on a great RnR release.
The final tune is the aforementioned Replacements sounding tune. Mellow, but with that Paul Westerberg drunken melancholy with a single clean guitar, and a slow shuffled drum in the background as the bass plucks the accenting notes. Too cool.
All in all, a five song EP that is worth your time from start to finish. I'll never understand how Sweden sounds more U.S. than so many of the bands here, and more-so than almost every single friggin' Country act, but I will just be thankful that somebody has chosen to preserve this countries musical history, even if it ain't us.

/ Carl Isonhart


Home of Rock (website)

Hahaha, it's time for Rock & Roll, the old tramp! It's well known that we write about bands like The Black Crowes, Diamond Dogs, Faces and even the Stones once in a while in this online magazine for adult education. It's just that I'm usually not allowed to, because a certain Mr. Schmidt gets in my way and steadily claims to be the bigger riffmaster.
And here we are already at the Rock's core, because, first of all, I search for my crowbirds, stray dogs, mugs and pebbles myself and, secondly, none of us is inferior to the other - for what he's better on the guitar, I'm better on wheat beer (electric, acoustic and slide anyway).
Just in a moment of deep desperation concerning the current discussion of the named bands within the last days and weeks, along comes a band from Sweden, which already looks like rock & roll, that is called LOVE INJECTIONS and which was praised by the great Nikki Sudden with the words "Pure rock & roll with soul and feeling". It would be blasphemous to disagree with Sudden, who passed away in March, so we better not do that and instead devote us to uninhibited cheerfulness.

The LOVE INJECTIONS have existed for 5 years, in that time they have recorded three demos. This (third) one is called "Breakfast For Champions" and consists unfortunately only of five self-composed songs, but it's enough to make the hairs stand up on every real rocker. Real stuff for real people - just to abuse once the motto of our congenial colleagues from Real Music.
It's been a while since I've been standing on a chair (by the way, pretty dangerous as this thing spins and jiggles alarmingly) at the first sounds of a CD. "Down & Out" sleazes so miserably down & dirty that you wish yourself immediately into a club with this band. And some girls in very short skirts boogieing along to it. Of course our investigations show that the INJECTIONS play one or another Stones song live, and that's exactly the way this bitch sounds like. That is cool, that is fun, even if we are on the verge of withering because of all this zeitgeist-music. How nonchalant this KJ Svensson is singing... And the two guitarists have for sure a cigarette in the face. Oops, smoking ban, hahaha.
"Dead Weight" is one of those countryfying I-give-you-my-solo-you-give-me-your-riff-but-don't-play-too-clean bastardnumber, like the FACES were able to do. That stuff live and in front of a greedy pack, and then Simonson and Sahlin would trade guitar-licks for 10 minutes.
But they can also do it differently, namely letting out the Rock'n'Roller, hahahohohihi. With "Dirty Green, Black & Blue" are we somewhere in the 70s, when some Pub-Rockers were accidentally classified as Punks and nevertheless caused a higher booze sale.

Anyhow, one slap has to be handed out to these men, because it's hard to grasp that on a 5-track-demo has to be a short acoustic instrumental number, even if the handling of the slide is absolutely respectable, and why there is nothing to come after the hypnotic along-grooving sneaker "Bittersweet Goodbye". This band can do it and has so much potential that this slim quarter of an hour is not more than an appetizer. We want more! The good news: On the homepage you can download this and the previous demos, but you can also buy it for a few Öre at CD Baby.

Who likes the named bands and their allied creatures, will thank me on his knees for this tip. Or buy me a drink. You can choose. Yeahaa, big fun!

/ Fred Schmidtlein (translated by Sarah)


Hahaha, es ist Zeit für Rock & Roll, die alte Schlampe! In diesem Onlinemagazin für Erwachsenenbildung reden wir bekanntlich ab und an mal über Bands wie die BLACK CROWES, DIAMOND DOGS, FACES oder gar die STONES. Nur ich darf das fast nie, weil mir immer ein gewisser Herr Schmidt in die Quere kommt und standhaft behauptet, der größere Riffmaster zu sein. Der schräge Vogel.
Und da sind wir schon bei des Rockers Kern, denn erstens such ich mir meine Krähenvögel, Straßenköter, Visagen und Steinchen dann eben selbst und zweitens geben wir beide uns unterm Strich eh nix, denn was der Schmidt besser auf der Gitarre ist, kann ich mehr am Weißbier (elektrisch und akustisch, geslidet sowieso).
Just in einem Moment der tiefen Verzweiflung ob der aktuellen Besprechungen der genannten Bands in den letzten Tagen und Wochen, kommt mir eine Band aus Schweden auf den Tisch, die schon mal grundsätzlich nach Rock & Roll aussieht, LOVE INJECTIONS heißt und vom großen Nikki Sudden mit den Worten "Pure rock & roll with soul and feeling" gelobt wurde. Es wäre lästerlich, dem im letzten März verstorbenen Sudden zu widersprechen, also tun wir das mal besser nicht und geben uns stattdessen dem ungehemmten Frohsinn hin.

LOVE INJECTIONS gibt es seit 5 Jahren, seitdem haben sie drei Demos aufgenommen, dieses dritte nennt sich "Breakfast For Champions", besteht leider nur aus fünf eigenverfassten Songs und muss jedem Basis-Rocker Arme und Haare wie Windmühlenflügel verleihen. Real stuff for real people, um mal das Motto unseres geistesverwandten Kollegen von Real Music zu missbrauchen.
Schon länger nicht mehr stand ich bei den allerersten Tönen einer CD nicht auf sondern auf dem Stuhl (gefährlich übrigens, das Ding dreht sich und wackelt bedenklich). Down & Out sleazt so elend down & dirty dahin, dass man sich umgehend in den Club mit dieser Kapelle wünscht. Und ein paar Mädels, die in maximal kurzen Röckchen den Boogie dazu tanzen. Klar, die Recherche ergibt, dass die INJECTIONS live durchaus den einen und anderen Song der STONES spielen und genau so klingt dieses kleine Miststück auch. Das ist geil, das macht Spaß, das ist nicht im geringsten altmodisch, es ist einfach nur das was uns der Doktor verordnet, wenn wir vor lauter Zeitgeistmucke zu vertrocknen drohen. Wie lässig dieser KJ Svensson doch singt... der windet sich auf der Bühne bestimmt wie eine Klapperschlange um den Mikroständer... und die beiden Gitarristen haben garantiert ne Kippe im Gesicht. Huah, Rauchverbot, hahaha.
Dead Weight ist so eine countryfizierte Ich-geb-dir-mein-Solo-du-gibst-mir-dein-Riff-aber-spiel-bloss-nicht-zu-sauber Bastardnummer, wie sie die FACES drauf hatten. Das live und vor einer gierigen Meute, und dann geben sich Simonson und Sahlin 10 Minuten die Lick-Keule.
Sie können aber auch anders, nämlich den Rock'n'Roller raushängen lassen, hahahohohihi. Bei Dirty Green, Black & Blue sind wir irgendwo in den Siebzigern, als manche Pub-Rocker versehentlich als Punks eingeordnet wurden und trotzdem für verschärfte Getränkeumsätze sorgten.

Eine Klatsche kriegen die Herrschaften dennoch, weil kaum verständlich ist, dass auf einem 5-Track-Demo unbedingt eine kurze Akustik-Instrumentalnummer sein muss, auch wenn durchaus respektabel mit der Slide umgegangen wird, und warum nach dem hypnotisch dahingroovenden Schleicher Bittersweet Goodbye nichts mehr kommt. Diese Band kann es doch und hat so viel Potenzial, dass diese knappe Viertelstunde nicht mehr als ein Appetithäppchen ist. We want more!
Die gute Nachricht: Auf der Homepage kann man sich dieses und die vorhergehenden Demos downloaden, man kann aber auch für ein paar Öre bei CD Baby zuschlagen.

Wer auf die genannten Namen und deren artverwandte Geschöpfe steht, wird mir auf Knien für diesen Tipp danken. Oder ein Bier ausgeben. Sucht es euch raus. Yeahaaa, big fun!

/ Fred Schmidtlein


High Bias (website)

One listen to "Breakfast For Champions", the debut EP from the Swedish quintet the Love Injections, and you know exactly where they're coming from. It's the same place kindred spirits the Diamond Dogs, the Crybabys, Marah, Midnight Scraper and the late Nikki Sudden inhabit, the same area ancestors the Faces, Hanoi Rocks, the New York Dolls, the Dogs D'amour and (especially) the Rolling Stones built from the ground up. It's a place where rock & roll reveres its R&B roots but isn't bound by them, where punk stands for rebellion rather than musical conventions, where glam is more about attitude than fashion. "Down & Out" and "Dead Weight" out-Stones the Stones, "Bittersweet Goodbye" is the best song Paul Westerberg hasn't written in years, and "Dirty Green, Black & Blue" is simply a rush of urgent melody and high-strung energy. Sure, the Love Injections are derivative, but they love what they do and they do it well. With true-blue rock & roll, that’s all that matters.

/ Michael Toland


Veglam (website)

It's been some time now since I reviewed the first LOVE INJECTIONS demo CD. They went through some line-up changes and here there are in 2006 with 5 new songs. The band still haven't made any compromise and keep on playing ROLLING STONES influenced rock'n'roll (obvious especially in the opening track "Down & Out") and that's not a bad thing since they're really good at it. They've got a live production that fits very well with their spirit and music. A song like "Dirty Green, Black & Blue" reminds me a bit of HANOI ROCKS, so once again I won't complain at all and if you like good old bluesy acoustic songs, just listen to "Glad Handing Dandy" (short but sweet!) "Bittersweet Goodbye", the last song is a ballad but not a cheesy one, more like a slow, melancholic, blues rock'n'roll song. This CD comes out with a cool brown wrapping paper cover and biography so that's another reason to order it... But, you know what? If you're lazy then you can also download the whole thing on the band's website.

/ Laurent


Backlash (website)

(4 out of 5)

Party, rock n' roll & the whole shebang! These guys are apparently from Skövde and started out in 2001, but it sounds more like Mississippi 1966 though. The whole thing sounds very un-Swedish and damn good. Great production and great rock n' roll-songs that reeks of The Rolling Stones aswell as Lou Reed and also CCR. But, first and foremost they sound like the Love Injections! Opening track "Down & Out" is my favorite, a song that grooves and rocks with cowbells and the whole thing. Closer "Bittersweet Goodbye" is a slow Tom Petty kinda number that's ok, nothing more, nothing less. But what the hell, Mick Jagger would've sold his soul to have written the first four tracks.

/ Yxan


(4 av 5)

Party, rock n' roll & hela baletten! Grabbarna är visst från Skövde och drog igång 2001, men det låter mer som Mississippi 1966. Det hela låter förbannat osvenskt och förbannat bra. Skitbra produktion och skitbra rock n' roll-låtar som doftar såväl Rolling Stones som Lou Reed men även CCR. Men, framförallt låter de som Love Injections! Inledande "Down & Out" är ju min favorit, en låt som svänger på och rockar med koklocka & hela köret. Avslutande "Bittersweet Goodbye" är en långsam Tom Petty-historia som är ok, inte mer. Men va fan, de fyra första spåren hade Mick Jagger sålt sin själ för att ha skrivit.

/ Yxan


MetalliVille (website)

(10 out of 10)

Now if you didn't know any better you'd have said that this was 'The Rolling Stones' in their 'Beggars Banquet' or 'Exile on Main Street' periods as the vocals and the music is so damn similar in fact 'Dirty Green, Black & Blue' even has the 'Gimme Shelter' woo's in it.

They are from Sweden and they are just simply Rock N Roll – driving fun stuff as it should be. You can't go wrong with their approach. A label should offer them a decent deal. It's highlights galore on this CD that include the party vibed 'Down & Out'; the outstanding 'Dead Weight' and the instrumentally Stonesy 'Glad Handing Dandy'.

Love it!

/ Glenn Milligan


SugarBuzz (website)

Love Injections have taken yet another step towards rock perfection with this 2006 6-song release entitled Breakfast for Champions. I have been a fan and followed this bands career since inception and enjoy the fact that each new release shows growth and dare I say it, maturity.

Sporting some new members, Love Injections has held on to their early glam-style influences and twisted them up with classic rock and country roots flavors. In the mix are some down right tasty acoustic guitar finger picking good times that will have all you musicians sitting at home jacking riffs to your hearts content.

With a southern style twang intro (think Black Crowes "Jealous Again"), and the trade-marked KJ Svensson howl, "Down & Out" launches a new era for the Swedish Bad Boys.

"Dead Weight" has a kick ass country rock drive, while still reflecting the early Love Injections sound. KJ has a real distinctive voice, that once you are familiar with, you can pick it out anywhere, anytime.

More in the style of previous Love Injections material is straight ahead rocker, "Dirty Green, Black & Blue". Crisp staccato guitar presentation, hot rauncy solo, driving Tobbe Rogbrant percussion and trademark Love Injections hooks abound.

A hand clapping good time awaits in the 1 minute and 14 second ditty entitled "Glad Handing Dandy" And what a dandy it is. Are you guys playing a dobro, or is the guitar just super twangy? I must find the source of the sound.

"Bittersweet Goodbye" plays like a lazy, ambling down the road sort of feel. A fond farewell and then whistling into the sunset captures the essence.

If your interest is peaked and you would like to check out this CD, go to the bands website and you can download it for free along with the cover artwork. Do it!

/ Lucky (SugarBuzz Hollywood)


SLAM! (website)

We left Love Injections with 2004's "3 Sheets To The Wind" CD and now they're back with a new EP, a new bass player Henrik "Linkan" Lindqvist (JetVicious) and new guitar player Micke Sahlin. The songs on "Breakfast For Champions" continues in the same vein as the band's previous efforts, i.e. rock & roll that might not be that original but nevertheless pleasant and effective.

There are five songs on the CD and the best ones are: "Dead Weight" with a sound that takes us back to a different era; "Dirty Green, Black & Blue" with its catchy chorus and the brief "Down & Out".
The Rolling Stones and Faces will give you a clue as to what this sounds like. Five songs (including an acoustic instrumental on the second half of the CD) might not be that many but the stuff on "Breakfastfast For Champions" is enough to confirm all the good words previously written about this band.

/ Moreno Lissoni (thanks to Nick Mess for the translation)


Avevamo lasciato i Love Injections con "3 Sheets To The Wind" del 2004 e ora rieccoli con un nuovo Ep, un nuovo bassista Henrik "Linkan" Lindqvist (JetVicious) e un'altro chitarrista, Micke Sahlin. Le tracce presenti su "Breakfast For Champions" seguono la stessa linea intrapresa in passato dal gruppo svedese che propone un rock'n'roll che, se pur non originalissimo, risulta efficace e piacevole.

Ci vengono presentati 5 brani tra cui spiccano "Dead Weight", con un sound che ci catapulta in un'altra epoca; "Dirty Green, Black & Blue", dal coro trascinante e la breve "Down & Out".
Rolling Stones e Faces per aiutarvi a trovare qualche riferimento sonoro, 5 pezzi (tra cui un intermezzo acustico strumentale), sono sempre un pò pochini per dare un giudizio, però il materiale presente su questo “Breakfast For Champions” è sufficiente per confermare le buone parole spese in passato sul gruppo.

/ Moreno Lissoni


SKRUTT (website)

(7 out of 10)

Fucking nice cover on this record and it feels like it's very throughworked. Do we talk about the music so... Rolling Stones? Do you recognize that name? I think that Love Injections singer have heard them because here we a lot of Jagger and early Stones. Even groups like Creedence can be heard somewhere here I think and you can understand that this is rock n roll with 70's feeling which is the thing for this group. Dirty Green, Black & Blue is a song which have a first line which is like Sultans of Ping but otherwise this is rock n roll as before. Attitude as hell have the group anyway.

(7 av 10)

Jävligt snyggt omslag det här och det känns som om det är genomarbetat. Snackar vi om musiken så... Rolling Stones? Känns det namnet igen? Jag tror nog kanske att Love Injections sångare har hört dem för här finns mycket Jagger och tidiga Stones. Även grupper som Creedence hörs någonstans tycker jag och ni förstår att detta är rock n roll med 70-talsfeeling som är grejen för denna grupp. Dirty Green, Black & Blue är en låt som har en inledning som är värdig Sultans of Ping men annars är det samma rock n roll som innan. Attityd som fan har i alla fall gruppen.


HAIRMETALIRELAND (website)

(7 out of 10)

More Swedes!
The Love Injections are a five-piece from Vastergotland, Sweden, and after a few line-up changes, this is their third demo. It was recorded pretty much live in a matter of days, and sounds wonderful for it!

The most obvious comparisons would be New York Dolls and early Rolling Stones; KJ's vocals at times can sound quite Jagger-ish, most notably on Down And Out, but the song Dead Weight actually reminded me of The Faces/early Rod Stewart, as the whole EP does sound very early-1970's.

Although there are undoubtedly quite a few bands playing the same type of music with the same influences, the Love Injections I think would be the best I've heard. They even have an instrumental called Glad Handing Dandy - it just sounds like someone is clapping and stamping their foot in the corner of the studio, and I defy anyone who hears it not to stamp along too.

Dirty Green Black and Blue is completely brilliant - guaranteed to put you in a good mood with loud "Woo's!" throughout, and even a rendition of The Eurythmics Thorn In My Side at the beginning... better than it sounds, I assure you. For me it's the absolute standout track.

The closing track Bittersweet Goodbye is slower paced than the other songs, and a nice end to a very good EP.

Unfortunately due to bad luck and general lack of funds, the five other tracks that were meant to be included on this release were never recorded, and judging by the songs on this, it's a shame. If you like bluesy, Stones/Dolls/Cheap Trick influenced rock, then I would definitely recommend this EP.

/ Suzie


HARD ROCK INFO.COM (website)

LOVE INJECTIONS continue with their rock'n'roll mission after some changes in the lineup, and when I say rock'n'roll I mean ROLLING STONES and not THE HELLACOPTERS. They have made 2 demos before this one ("Love Injections" 2002 and "3 Sheets To The Wind" 2004) which are great, and this new one is also really good even though I miss that hit potential that they had on their earlier demos, but ok, the more I listen the better it is, so that opinion will probebly change.
You get 5 tracks on this demo and it's definetely worth checking out! I hope we don't have to wait another 2 years before the next release is out.
This demo can be downloaded for free from their web site, but you can also buy it from the band if you prefer that.