Love Keeps Kicking Explained

Love Keeps Kicking
Type:studio
Artist:Martha
Cover:MarthaLoveKeepsKicking.jpg
Recorded:2018–2019
Genre:
  • Indie rock
  • pop punk
  • indie punk
Length:37:07
Prev Title:Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
Prev Year:2016
Next Title:Please Don't Take Me Back
Next Year:2022

Love Keeps Kicking is the third studio album by the English band Martha. It was originally released on 5 April 2019 by Big Scary Monsters in the UK/EU and Dirtnap Records in the US.

Release

Martha released the album's first single, "Heart Is Healing", in December 2018, followed by the album's lead single, "Love Keeps Kicking", in January 2019. The album's third single, "Into This", was released in February 2019.[1] [2]

Around the album's release, the band received profiles from major music and culture magazines Rolling Stone and NME.[3] [4]

The album includes references to the WWE's signature event Wrestlemania, and the American bands Huey Lewis and the News and Against Me!.[4]

Tracks "The Void" and "Lucy Shone a Light on You" are both part of a narrative started on "The Ballad of Lucy Connor (Part 1)" — a track from their first EP — with the former being parts of a story written by the titular character that is referenced in the latter.[5]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Listen: Martha - 'Heart Is Healing'. Murray. Robin. 13 December 2018. 17 April 2019. Clash.
  2. Web site: Martha – "Love Keeps Kicking". Rettig. James. 28 January 2019. 28 January 2019. Stereogum.
  3. News: Durham posi-punks Martha take on the 'dreadful state of the world' on 'The Void' . Connick . Tom . 21 March 2019 . . 17 April 2019.
  4. News: Martha Are Building a Better World Through Pop-Punk . Bernstein . Jonathan . 11 April 2019 . . 17 April 2019.
  5. Web site: Martha (The VH Interview). Bell. Richard. 27 April 2019. 1 May 2019. Vulture Hound.