Love Can Be Red / One Word For It [002]

Description

Ladies take the lead on our second release — an excavation that features a northern crossover-tinged track by an unknown girl group, backed with some seriously spaced-out funk by Rose Hicks.

Put on Love Can Be Red and get ready to hit the dance floor. This track is so deliciously of its time, you might feel like you’re in the midst of the 70s. The chorus of female voices delivers a beautiful refrain: “love can be red, love can be blue, its color is up to you.” The message may be about the different phases of a relationship that goes from hot to cold. A deeper reading is that it’s about the inclusive nature of love — it can be many different colors, and can be for anyone you choose. “Its color is up to you.”

The urgency of “Love Can Be Red” is balanced by the intergalactic One Word for It by Rose Hicks — a sprawling funk instrumental that sits lovely alongside cuts by The Chubukos, Manzel or Bad Medicine. Highly recommended to get your funk fix at any time — or as the perfect jump-off to your DJ set.

A fat bass line binds these cuts together, along with their cryptic origins — tracks made in the 70s, when so many bands put their passion to tape, perhaps in hopes of something greater. Beyond that, all we know is what you hear — towering talent featuring women at the forefront. It’s an honor to present to you this 45 in limited-run stock and white label promo variants. Get it quick before it goes back to space.

Press Run

7", 45RPM
Will not be repressed.
Original Street Date: December 8, 2017
White Label Press Run: 200 (two hundred), original price: $20
Black Vinyl Press Run: 500 (five hundred), original price $12