Love Loss Hope Repeat

Product Description Love Loss Hope Repeat, the second Vanguard release from the Richmond, VA-based pop/rock band Carbon Leaf, boasts a collection of catchy, melodic anthems, staying true to the Carbon Leaf tradition. The band's songwriting and musicianship takes another great leap forward on this album with compelling new tunes that explore the often-turbulent emotions of the human heart. Produced by Peter Collins (Queensryche, Jewel, Lisa Loeb). Amazon.com In its 13 years together, Richmond, Va. quintet Carbon Leaf has evolved from an Irish-laced bar band into a legitimate rock outfit, and one of Vanguard Record's most coveted artists-along the way winning a soda company's "Best New Artist" contest and earning a bona fide hit with "Life Less Ordinary" (on 2004's Indian Summer album). Led by singer/songwriter Barry Privett and a stinging Rickenbacker 12-string, the band wastes no time aiming for a follow-up on Love Loss Hope Repeat. "But I can see you fly away," sings a disheartened Privett on the break-up song "Learn To Fly," rising up to proclaim, "As I fall apart, I learn to fly." Such an optimism-replaces-hopelessness blueprint, which has befitted Carbon Leaf on five previous records, is peppered throughout the 11 songs here, including the country-flavored "Block of Wood" and perhaps the strongest track of the herd, "A Girl and Her Horse." "And away she rides to the great unknown," Privett sings over a driving guitar lead, effusively aware that Carbon Leaf now knows precisely where it's going. --Scott Holter