Talula Love Bottoms LOVES head...Radiohead that is...

The Decade in Radiohead: Ed O'Brien on "Kid A" to "In Rainbows"
"What we're trying to do now is make art without fear"

(a segment from a Rolling Stone Interview that Talula is particularly fond of...)


Do you feel more or less empowered than you did in 2000 — as a musical concern, as a band trying to make art in a strange world?
On a more personal level, if you went back nine, 10 years, you'd find that external events exerted way more influence. Imminent war — things like that affected us much more. Now, I feel more empowered, that these things cannot create heaven or hell within me.

In terms of the band, we feel way more empowered in terms of our art and what we're doing. We have been rehearsing for the last four weeks, for this new record. And we are in a very different place, a very new place. I don't know if this is relevant, but I was talking with Philip [Selway, drummer] three days ago about this. We were saying, "What's different?" And one of the things is we do things without fear. A lot of where we come from — our education, our upbringing — manifests itself in the shadow of fear. I love that Talking Heads album title, Fear of Music. There has been a lot of that. And in a sense, I don't think it served us too badly. It kept us on our toes. It kept us trying to seek new areas artistically.

The trouble is, as you get older, fear is not a great motivator. If you have fear, you can't relax. [The 2007 album] In Rainbows definitely hints at that. The way that album sounded actually goes against the grain of those two years, the gestation period. That was fear-based time. But the album didn't turn out that way. And certainly the gigs after it hinted at a different way of being. What we're trying to do now is make art without fear. You're relaxing. There is more joy in what you do.

FEAR.
What a great topic.
In this idea...this creation of who Talula is...
in all of this -
has been surrounded by fear.
NOT EVERYONE WILL LIKE TALULA. NOT EVERYONE WILL UNDERSTAND TALULA.
NOT EVERYONE LIKES RADIOHEAD...NOT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS RADIOHEAD...
but they move forward in experimenting, challenging themselves and
practicing. rehearsing. executing.

Talula Love Bottoms is on this same level - in understanding...

AND WITHOUT FEAR!!!!

"if you want me, fucking come and get me...I'm ready"

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The artwork is Titled "Black Holes and Revelations"
It is industrial...like Radioheads music.
It is complex like their instrumentals....

It starts out with a ridiculous fucking drum intro...
like rain pounding on tin roofs..

But it is sad, it is broken and it is trying at the
same time to be beautiful. Like Talula.

"Packed Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box"