Pure Love

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Pure Love are a great guitar rock band. The name is taken from a song by '70s jazz-rock fusionists Mahavishnu Orchestra, 'Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love', and they came into being quickly and instinctively.

Singer Frank Carter and guitarist Jim Carroll got together in New York having decided to form their perfect rock band. Both come from backgrounds in hardcore music - Carter was front man with the incendiary British band Gallows; Carroll played in US hardcore bands The Hope Conspiracy and The Suicide File.

Over the years Carroll had assembled around a thousand instrumental tracks and sketches. Last February he gave 50 or so of them to Carter the day before going on holiday to Mexico. That same night Carter put lyrics to one of these two-minute pieces. Pure Love had written their first song. The date: Valentine's Day 2011.

"Frank and I complemented each other right away," says Carroll. "We had the same perspective on things and music was our instant bond."

Carter says his partner's tracks were exactly what he was looking for. "I've always liked big, hook-filled rock songs," he says. "I was brought up on The Beatles, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin...With Pure Love, I've found my voice again."

Pure Love's debut album - recorded in a rapid-fire burst with producer Gil Norton, who has previously worked with The Pixies and Foo Fighters, is due for release in October. "We want to put it all out there," says Carter, "blood, sweat and tears. But we also want to have a lot of fun."

The Pure Love manifesto begins here.

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