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Look at that fucking cover art! Wow. I have seen a lot of dog-ugly album covers in my many, many years on this planet, and it takes a lot for me to really notice another one. This one did it. The cover art for Pain Travels<\/em>, the first full-length from the Leeds band Love Rarely, is the kind of thing that just reaches out and gouges you in the brain. I’m honestly impressed.<\/p>\n Love Rarely are an ambitious young band that exists somewhere on the emo\/post-hardcore spectrum. They’ve got mathy time signatures, proggy structures, almost gallingly radio-ready hooks, and occasional bursts of all-out heaviness. Their music is a lot<\/em>. They’re joining the Callous Daoboys for an upcoming UK tour, which sounds about right. <\/p>\n In the past couple of years, Love Rarely have released a lot of singles, including “Disappear<\/a>,” which impressed us last year. “Disappear” and a handful of other previously released tracks appear on Pain Travels<\/em>. Love Rarely guitarist Lew Taylor produced the album, and it comes out this spring. Today, the band shares the album’s impressive, all-over-the-place opening track “Will.” Below, you’ll find the Alex Dixon-directed video, in which singer Courtney Levitt gets shot full of arrows and gets a faceful of lipstick. <\/p>\n