Sony
2006
Marty Casey & Lovehammers
About This Album
Marty Casey saddled his band with a name that unfortunately conjures memories of Spinal Tap -- Lovehammers is not a far cry from Nigel Tufnel's "Lick My Love Pump" -- which could very well be part of the reason why he and Lovehammers were stuck eking out a living in Chicago for years. Only when Casey joined the cast of the first season of CBS's Rock Star, a reality show where the winner joined INXS as their lead vocalist, did the Lovehammers capture some national attention, particularly since Casey turned into a fan favorite, winding up as the second-place finisher on the show. That led Casey and the Lovehammers to a major-label contract with Epic, which released an eponymous album in the first weeks of 2006. This is not their first album -- in 2004, they released Murder on My Mind, a self-released debut. Marty Casey & Lovehammers is on a much larger scale, of course, and appropriately, it's been given a production that's big, glossy, and shiny, something that's ready for radio. Lovehammers weren't always this slick -- Murder on My Mind was a hard, heavy neo-grunge album, and prior to Rock Star, the band did a few sessions with the notoriously independent record producer/engineer Steve Albini, one of which ("Straight as an Arrow") carried over to this album.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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