Milwaukee's Lackloves feature the singing and songwriting talents of Mike Jarvis, former co-leader of the much-beloved Blow Pops, whose two early-'90s albums are considered minor classics by the power pop underground. Unlike his former partner Tim Buckley, who moved to Virginia to form the space rock experimentalists Maki, Jarvis remains true to his power pop roots in the Lackloves, playing catchy guitar pop tunes with an unselfconscious devotion to the British Invasion, late-'70s new wave, and all points in between.
The Lackloves formed in 1996, two years after the Blow Pop...