Brand New Love
| "Brand New Love" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Sentridoh from the album Weed Forestin' | |
| Released | 1987 |
| Recorded | 1986 |
| Genre | Lo-fi |
| Length | 2:29 |
| Label | Not on label |
| Writer(s) | Lou Barlow |
| "Brand New Love" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Sebadoh from the album Sebadoh vs Helmet | |
| Released | 1992 |
| Genre | Indie rock, lo-fi, noise pop |
| Length | 4:04 |
| Label | Domino |
| Writer(s) | Lou Barlow |
"Brand New Love" is a 1986 song written by Lou Barlow. It was first released independently by Barlow under the moniker Sentridoh, but has since come to be associated with Sebadoh, the band Barlow formed with Eric Gaffney.
Barlow made a four-track home recording of "Brand New Love" in 1986, during the same period that he was an active member of Dinosaur Jr. That four-track recording closes out the album Weed Forestin', which was first self-released by Lou Barlow on cassette in 1987 under the name Sentridoh. In 1990, that same recording was officially and more broadly released by Homestead Records, but with the attribution changed to Sebadoh.
The Weed Forestin' version of "Brand New Love" also appears on Sebadoh's compilation album released in 1990, entitled The Freed Weed, also released through Homestead Records.
On the compact disc release of The Freed Weed, the track runs for three minutes: the last thirty seconds of the track consists of inter-cut fragments of other recordings. Fragments include a sped-up section of Dinosaur Jr.'s "The Lung", and two repeats of a section of Dinosaur Jr.'s "Throw Down", the first of which is slowed, the second of which is at regular speed.
In 1992, Sebadoh released their Sebadoh vs Helmet EP in the UK through 20/20 Recordings and Domino. The EP featured a new studio recording of "Brand New Love" performed by the Sebadoh's then three-piece line-up of Barlow, Gaffney and Jason Loewenstein.
Steve Taylor wrote that the "early lo-fi version of "Brand New Love" was taken up to mid-fi on the... Sebadoh vs Helmet mini-album". At a little over four minutes, this studio version is slower and significantly longer that Barlow's original home recording. While the lyrics are essentially the same, the arrangement is more sophisticated with drums, bass guitar, distorted electric guitar and a second vocalist added to the mix. The opening riff uses the same picked notes as were used throughout the verse of the earlier version, but the pattern of the picking has changed: while the Weed Forestin' version used a trochaic pattern, this one consists of two dactyls and a trochee. The most significant additional section is an intense noise-rock outro with layered guitars and a feedback-laden crescendo.
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