Album:    Lover's Acid
Artist:   Luke Vibert
Label:    Planet Mu Records
Released: 2005-04-04
Summary:  Upbeat and loud acid house.

This surprisingly coherent album is a compilation of the three 12"
EPs '95-'99, Homewerk, and Lover's Acid, all reordered and fit onto
a single CD.

The music is upbeat and loud; if it stuck to simple 4/4 rhythms with
less fancy sequencing, it would be a perfect mindless floor filler
for clubs, but it's more intelligent than that, occasionally getting
sidetracked by Aphex Twin style tangents.

This album isn't particularly accessible.  The first few times I
listened to it, I wanted to like it a lot more than I did.  It is
growing on me, though.  If you're going to judge whether or not to
get the album based on just one track, I'd recommend giving Acid
2000 a listen.  It's probably the easiest track on the album to get
into.

Lover's Acid is a bit cheesy in places, but judging by the vocal
sample "Can you imagine where you will be in the year two thousand?"
I think it's safe to assume that Luke Vibert is being satirical in
his use of the occasional cliche - a wise move considering that the
music is probably better off with them included.

The star of this series is undoubtedly the distorted Roland TB-303,
although the suitably tough drums and accompanying breakbeats come
in a close second.  The fact that a lot of the percussion sounds
like it was performed on something other than Roland drum machines
is pretty refreshing.

If you hate TB-303 acid lines, don't even bother looking at this.
If you love them, though, it's probably worth checking out Lover's
Acid as it does provide a refreshingly original perspective on acid
house - quite a feat considering how long the genre has been going.

If you're into acid house or IDM, you might love this, but it's
definitely not for everyone.
