DAVID McCOMB : LOVE OF WILL

  1. Clear Out My Mind
  2. Setting You Free
  3. Day Of My Ascension
  4. Deep In A Dream
  5. Nothing Good
  6. The Lord Burns Every Clue
  7. Lifelike
  8. Lover Sister #1
  9. Heard You Had A Bed
  10. Inside Of Me
  11. Leaning
  12. I Want To Conquer You
  13. Pack Up Your Troubles

Label : Mushroom

Release Date : March 1994

Length : 55:15

Review (Wikipedia) : Love of Will is the debut album by David McComb, released in March 1994. The album was recorded and mixed between June and August 1993, at Platinum Studios with additional mixing at Metropolis and Sing Sing Studios. McComb selected 13 songs out of a pile of 35 and recorded them at Platinum Studios, Melbourne with producer Nick Mainsbridge, together with freelance musical directors Graham Lee and David McComb, and assistant engineers Kalju Tonuma and Phil Jones. Videos were made for the singles from the album, "Setting You Free" and "Clear Out My Mind". The album was being planned for a period of four and a half years, with McComb waiting for all the members of the band, who also played with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Blackeyed Susans, to be available to tour before releasing the album. He also said, "I wanted to be certain that every song was right. I'm not obsessed with longevity, but a song has to last a few years. There's no point doing something that'll only last a few months. The criterion is for the songs to be as powerful as they can be." Triffids drummer Alsy MacDonald said, "I think those songs were specifically designed to be recorded not by the Triffids. And Dave was less worried about atmospherics - it's a rootsier album." "Evil" Graham Lee added, "the songs that the Triffids could have done, we wouldn't have played like that. It's a straightforward band record." Reviewed in Rolling Stone Australia at the time of release, it was given a rating of three and a half from a possible five. McComb's first solo release is described as, "worth hanging around for." The review states the best moments, "are in its quieter gospel-inflected songs, such as the beautiful, textured, "Leaning"." Producer Nick Mainsbridge is said to have, "eschewed even the pretence of studio trickery." Juice gave the album the same rating, but said the album, "often sounds amateurish. There has always been a sense with McComb that he is a non-musician who has somehow managed to make decent music." It concluded that the album would please, "critics and Triffids fans."