Sweet F.A. by Love and Rockets

Sweet F.A., the sixth Love and Rockets album, came out in 1996 on American Recordings and Beggars Banquet, and it trades the electronic sheen of Hot Trip to Heaven for loud guitars and straighter songwriting. The three ex-Bauhaus men, Daniel Ash on guitar and vocals, David J on bass and Kevin Haskins on drums, made it with John Fryer producing, and the sessions had a scare: in April 1995 a fire broke out in the American Recordings-owned house where they were living and recording, though all three came through unhurt.

The title is British naval slang for nothing at all, in its ruder form, and Ash leans into it on the title track. "Sweet Lover Hangover" became a minor alternative radio hit, but the record plays like an old-school head album, getting stranger and more fractured as it goes until it breaks into the electronic dance of "Here Come the Comedown" and the chaos of "Spiked". "Natacha" was written for their friend Natacha Atlas.

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