Product Description

'No Love Lost' is the debut album from York-formed indie four-piece, The Rifles. Fusing elements of both The Jam and The Buzzcocks into their own distinctive sound, the band have crafted an album that is strong musically as it is witty lyrically. Includes the singles 'She's Got Standards', 'Peace And Quiet' and 'Local Boy'.

Track Listing

1. She's Got Standards
2. Local Boy
3. One Night Stand
4. Home Town Blues
5. Peace And Quiet
6. Spend A Life Time
7. Robin Hood
8. She's The Only One
9. Repeated Offender
10. When I'm Alone
11. Narrow Minded Social Club

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14844 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-17
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
On their debut album No Love Lost, Walthamstow's The Rifles mark themselves out as contemporaries of The Ordinary Boys, The Libertines and Hard-Fi, laddish city slickers dashing through terse, tense urban anthems indebted to the London-accentuated songcraft of The Jam and The Specials. Frontman Joel Stoker, in particular, reminds one of a young Paul Weller, his barked vocals betraying a frayed, soulful emotion on the likes of 'Local Boy' and 'Hometown Blues'. He is something of a cad, as evinced by 'One Night Stand', a tale of a girl he values more for her availability than her intelligence: "I'm not being mean, in fact I'm really rather polite/All I'm trying to say is that you wouldn't catch her on Mastermind". 'Spend A Lifetime' is the cue to a more endearing side, a vulnerable acoustic number undercut by accordion and vocal harmonies subtly orchestrated by producer and sometime Lightning Seed Ian Broudie. No Love Lost works as an album - eleven tracks zip by with barely space to breathe - although few would deny that presently The Rifles still lack the sublime lyrical bent or intriguing self-mythology that saw The Libertines revitalise the genre. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Awesome debut from The Rifles
Having been away from the city for a while now, it's harder to keep up with the new bands, but The Rifles are one I'm going to keep in touch with now I've found out about them. I first saw them when they supported Weller on his festival warm-up tour in Spring, and I was impressed to say the very least.

Yes, as other reviewers have commented, they might be compared with other bands. But I think likening them to others is to understate their ability and sound tremendously. All the songs on their debut album are cracking, each from its own lyrical or musical perspective. They have a lot more (and relevant) things to tell you than many of the bands other reviewers have compared them to. But don't take my word for it....buy it now yourself and enjoy!

quality album
this band is amazing saw them at the saundhause in northhampton supported by the on offs they were absolutly amazing

the album is also amazing i hope thta there next 1 is as good as this 1 there is no track that is dissapointing i like them all but the best ones are Local Boy, Robin Hood, Narrow Minded social club, peace and quiet and one night stand.

this album is deffinately a must buy u have to go out and buy it

Rifling not Trifling
Like a little saddo I was there on the day of release fresh from seeing the band a couple of times, once notably supported by Milburn. They are a crack unit delivering an easy and reliveable listen and delivering the goods when it comes to live performances. Who cannot be moved or nod sagely to the lyrics in Narrow Minded Social Club(I have kids!) or want to leap about like an idiot to Robin Hood? I really hope the band can sustain this level of songwriting when it comes to the next album. In a selfish way I almost hope they don't make it big as otherwise I would dread to think of a dumbing down album circa Razorlight- saw them recently and none of the "fans" near us knew Dalston!