Song Feature: Love Monster

On the purity of feeling

When my band, Job Creators, released our previous album, Dream Harvest (2020), we aimed to create an earthy and natural sound. The album sought to express the dream that becomes our life and how dreaming is within our nature, but in harvesting the fruits of our dreams, we reap something different than what we sowed.

Love Monster (October 2023), an album born with the ocean at the heart of it, is an examination of the tides and currents that create love and the beautiful and terrible creatures our love creates.

Our first single, “Waverunner,” is the opener on the album, which I wrote about here.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our second single off the upcoming album and the title track: “Love Monster.”

“Love Monster” is a foreboding and exotic melody that slithers around the idea of love and the feelings of it. James Baldwin, who is featured in the song, says that no man and no woman is precisely who they think they are. We dance in that mystery.

As drummer and synth player Tim Winslow describes it:

"‘Love Monster’ was born as a synthesizer riff back in December 2019. It’s meant to be a frank exploration of relationships and how love plays a role in those different relationships… and how you can love differently in different relationships. It’s also about how ow love creates responses. What I loved about the Baldwin quote is that he describes love as ‘love is where you find it.’ Your preconception of love is different from reality.”

Love Monster isn’t just about our relationships to people, but to the things we love and the way we love those things.

“Love can create monsters and the most beautiful moments and, often, that happens at the same time,” Tim says. “Baldwin mentions that love is a terrifying thing.”

Listen to the full song here on Spotify, Bandcamp, or the streaming platform of your choice!