C. Charles Jones’s “Love Songs” is something that may fit perfectly into the musical movement that is pushing the borders of mainstream pop with a hint of nostalgia. It is an album that features the many familiar sounds of The Beach Boys with a modern lo-fi tone. If Iggy Pop and The Stooges were to make a motown baby, then Love Songs would be the prodigy.
The album is formed from a flawed and overproduced perspective with no **** given —–as C. Charles Jones states, “it is my most experimental piece yet……. I had written these songs in the very beginning of my songwriting journey, from many years ago……they are such bad songs!….I decided to make them sound even worse!……yet the result left me in-awe of what I had created.”
From the title track “Inside These Four Walls,” we are catapulted into a song-by-song journey of emotional heartache and lovesick confusion. The happy and whimsical track “About As Desperate As It Gets” brings a haunting and ethereal sound into the albums tie-off with “Let’s Get Stoned Together” and “A Love Song For You,” a comedic-uncensored song that helps the human to reflect on their own dumb pointless heartache.
Though the album may be perceived as a burning pile of rubbish —–at least in C. Charles Jones’s eyes —–it may just help to serve the message on what the album is actually portraying through the reasons of why it NEEDED to be created in the first place.