Biography

With their shimmering guitars, effortless melodicism, and cavernous production, the House of Love swirled into the hearts of British music fans and critics in the late 1980s. On a series of well-received singles and a stunning '87 debut album on the influential Creation Records label, they embodied the darkly romantic aesthetics of the mushrooming shoegazer movement. A move to the Fontana label produced another long-player that charted high in the U.K., but subsequent line-up changes and inter-member strife began to take their toll on the band's creative output. By the turn of the decade, the more stripped-down approach of grunge and the dance-happy thrust of rave culture made the band's reverb-y poeticism seem a little passé for the fickle British music press, but the band soldiered on 'til their demise in 1993. A 2005 reunion album of the original line-up garnered great reviews.

Top Tracks

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• Baby Teen

• Christine

• Crush Me

• Destroy The Heart

• Feel

• I Don't Know Why I Love You

• In A Room

• Love In A Car

• Marble

• Never

• Nothing To Me

• Real Animal

• Salome

• Shine On

• Sweet Anatomy

• The Beatles And The Stones

• The Girl With The Loneliest Eyes

• The Hedonist

• You Don't Understand

Discography

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• Days Run Away

  V2 Records

  2005

• Audience with the Mind

  Fontana/Mercury

  1993

• Babe Rainbow

  Polygram

  1992

• The House of Love (Butterfly)

  Fontana Distribution

  1990

• The House of Love

  Renascent Records

  1988