Supreme Love Gods
Supreme Love Gods (1992)

Review by: Michael Walls
Date: 6/1/03

This is one of those CDs that has too much of a personal connection to seriously consider being a "must have" CD for others. But I’ll try to make the argument, beyond my private attachment, and let you be the judge.

First off, the personal connection: This is one of those "endless summer" type CDs for me. It was the summer of ’92 and I was two years out of college: jobless, broke, living on Long Island in a dilapidated former frat house with several other jobless and broke ex-college students, and dating this hot chick (who two years later became my hot wife). We basically just spent the whole summer at the beach, partying and hitting every free buffet between Long Beach and Jones Beach.

This same summer, I discovered the Supreme Love Gods. It was mostly a result of me wearing out my Primal Scream’s Screamadelica CD from the previous summer. I needed more of the same, but something new – and Supreme Love Gods picked up where Screamadelica left off. A psychedelic, electronic, funk mind-trip with lots of 60’s guitar riffs, sampled over and layered with dance club rhythms and funky synths. The use of different vocals, male and female, makes each song unique and interesting.

This kind of music was big that summer of 1992, the year of the Soup Dragons, Jesus Jones, Stereo MCs, and the dreadfully overplayed "Unbelievable" by EMF. All CDs I owned at one point or another. But the only one that held up beyond that summer was this release by Supreme Love Gods. Somehow it sounded different. I always blasted "Souled Out" or "Fantastique" or "Alive" in my truck stereo speeding down the Meadowbrook Parkway on my way to Jones Beach.

The Supreme Love Gods formed in 1991, released this album in 1992, then broke up in 1993 – as if they existed only to provide a soundtrack for my endless summer.