| Rock'n'Roll Tears | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Loene Carmen |
| Cover: | Rock'n'Roll_Tears_album_cover.jpg |
| Released: | 20 August 2007 |
| Recorded: | Colo River, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genre: | Americana, Singer-Songwriter, Rock |
| Length: | 54:03 |
| Label: | Shock Records Chiquita Records |
| Prev Title: | Slight Delay |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | It Walks Like Love |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Rock'n'Roll Tears is the third album from Australian singer/songwriter Loene Carmen. It was released on 25 August 2007 on Chiquita Records through Shock Records in Australia.
The album was recorded in 3 days on location in a barn in the Colo River, New South Wales, by Jorden Brebach and featured musicians from the Australian bands Mess Hall and The Holy Soul.[1]
Rock 'N' Roll Tears was described in its press release as "an anarchic, loose, dirty, dreamy, heat fuelled love letter to rock 'n' roll".[2]
Following the recording, Loene spent the remainder of 2006 road-testing her songs, touring and performing with Jim White (drummer) in New York, Mick Harvey in Italy and Greece, and Warren Ellis and Beasts of Bourbon in France.[3] followed by an Australian tour after its release, with Gareth Liddiard.[4]
Aden Young directed a 'Paris Texas' inspired video for lead single 'Nashville High'.[5]
Limited sales and radio airplay in Australia but generally positive critical reception.Something You Said called it 'dirty blues, rock and country, which bursts from the stereo like a bar-room brawl between The Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star and The Jesus and Mary Chain...Loene Carmen has once again proved with the pleasingly lo-fi Rock ‘n’ Roll Tears that she is an intelligent, candid songwriter with a voice so seductive that you'd rip your own heart out and hand it to her if she asked you to. Irresistible stuff.' [6] while The Dwarf called it 'an impeccably well orchestrated collection of moody, classic rock and roll pieces'.[7]