Invitation To Love
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Released: 4th July 2025
Invitation To Love’s new single and video explores a fascination with ’90s office equipment, fetishising the micro to the max.
Something of a Coventry supergroup, Invitation To Love is made up of Jim Bogue writer and vocals, Mike Price on guitar and synth (inlowercase), Mason Le Long on guitar and synth (Batsch) and Alice Weston on vocals (Paradise Of The Titans).
Their new single and video is full of smart beats and smart lyrics. With an opening that is seeped in Kraftwerk tunes, it segues into a pulsing beat. The music underscores the Big Brother style vocals that are both alluring and demanding, building up into the terrifying chant of the work-out guru demanding us to: Fake it, fake it, fake it, you got it, fake it, fake it, fake it, make it work.
The accompanying video, created by band member Jim Bogue, displays office items as fetishism to be stroked, caressed and mixed up with food and drink. Wanna be part of the beautiful go getter people – this could be you if you only smile right (get those teeth cleaned!) and do what you’re told. Become a part of the office furniture. Become fetishised yourself. Run on the treadmill in high heels and dive into a pool of money. Work and play meld into one to create overtime. High five the mirror! Fake it ‘til you make it!
Of the video and single Alice says: ‘It came around from a conversation/fascination with obsolete ’90s office equipment – particularly the ‘Amstrad email phone’ – plus villainous CEOs plus corporate takeovers.’
The band are working on an album which will have its launch at Coventry record shop and live venue Just Dropped In on 4th October 2025. If the rest of the album has the quality of this first single, it will be well worth checking out.
Invitation to love can be found on Instagram and Linktree.
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All words by Mark Ray. More writing by Mark Ray can be found at his author archive. And he can be found on Instagram.
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