Lex Walton :: Ultimate Love Forever

Lex Walton makes swaggering, theatrical, large-scale rock – the spit and snarl of her vocals punk laced, the instrumental arrangements swelling to arena-rock proportions. Dan Boeckner, half of one of the last big emotive rock duos of the aughts and teens, produced Ultimate Love Forever, and it has, sonically at least, some of Wolf Parade’s unabashed romanticism. The content is lacerating, the mood nihilistic, but the music itself is all about the good time. It high-kicks and cake-walks and vibrates with theatrical music hall energies.