Laughter's Fifth, by Love as Laughter

Laughter's Fifth

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1.	In Amber 04:03	buy track
2.	I Won't Hurt You 02:55	buy track
3.	Idol Worship! Idol Worship! 02:51	buy track
4.	Survivors 04:23	buy track
5.	Every Midnight Song 04:59	buy track
6.	Dirty Lives 03:06	buy track
7.	I'm A Ghost 04:08	buy track
8.	Canal Street 04:27	buy track
9.	Pulsar Radio 06:52	buy track
10.	Corona Extra 04:10	buy track
11.	Makeshift Heart 06:20	buy track

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After a busy year (songwriter Sam Jayne recently appeared on Saturday Night Live with Modest Mouse and played the prestigious All Tomorrow’s Parties festival accompanied by J. Mascis) Love as Laughter returns with Laughter’s Fifth, the smartest, grittiest solo-rich classic r’n’r record you’ll get in 2K5. Informed by Thin Lizzy/T-Rex/early Tom Petty, this album’s brilliantly disheveled pop gems tell stories of dirty tricks, miscommunication, regret, bathroom graffiti and misadventure. Sam Jayne started Love as Laughter in 1994 as a solo project in the months after the dissolution of Olympia, Washington’s mess-rock legends Lync and his work with Beck on the One Foot in the Grave record. L/A/L went on to release two albums on K Records and two more on Sub Pop. The new record highlights Jayne’s tongue-in-cheek wit, manifesting itself in the form of sly musical allusions and lyrical innuendo. Laughter’s Fifth is full of the kind of loosely perfect pop songwriting that inspired Doug Martsch to cover “Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords” (off L/A/L’s first album, The Greks Bring Gifts) on Built to Spill’s live record, simply titled Live. It’s a record shot through with gritty, intimate, laissez-faire sentiment and soul, and also their fifth full-length release.

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released April 26, 2005

2005 Sub Pop Records

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Love as Laughter Bainbridge Island, Washington

The continuing rock and roll adventures of Sam Jayne and his awesome talented friends. 20 years of noise and rock and punk and pop and... mandolins. Be liking us on the Facebook and Twitter and Instagram for all the real.

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