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# Love Child (Never Meant To Be)
- URL: https://helpful-koala.pikapod.net/love-child-never-meant-to-be/
- Published: 2024-05-06T21:34:45.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-06T22:09:21.000Z
- Author: Robert Rackley
- Tags: Noise, #robert-2, #Import 2024-09-14 17:57, #Import 2024-12-17 20:04, #Import 2025-01-01 18:26, #Import 2025-12-24 10:01, #Import 2026-07-11 23:34, #Import 2026-08-02 01:19, #Import 2026-09-14 17:25

Bandcamp [has a feature on Sonic Youth and Beat Happening contemporaries, Love Child](https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/love-child-never-meant-to-be-interview?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net). John Morrison, writing about the short-lived group, notes that their sound, while not pop-punk as we think of it, nevertheless was both pop and punk. Particularly on their early 7” singles, they have a shambling, amateurish sound that is as winsome as it is lo-fi. Morrison doesn’t mention how the band feels adjacent to the burgeoning riot grrl scene from the early nineties when Rebecca Odes is on vocals. Odes started playing bass after a relationship relentlessly exposed her to audio gear.

> “I got so sick of listening to my then-boyfriend talk about distortion pedals that I was like, ‘I have to figure out how to make this my own thing.’”

When Odes sings about a guy in “He’s So Sensitive,” she sounds like a girl who has just come from the riot where she fell in love with a neo boy who is the exact opposite of her last boyfriend.

On the whole, Love Child comes across as a band that should have been on K Records, with their mix of punk, noise and twee in equal measure. They have a diamond in the rough feel about them that marries perfectly with [a rerelease of their compiled works entitled *Never Meant To Be*](https://lovechild12xu.bandcamp.com/album/never-meant-to-be?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net) (dig the Supremes reference). It’s an indie pop crate digger's dream come true.

[Never Meant To Be by Love Child](https://lovechild12xu.bandcamp.com/album/never-meant-to-be?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net)