Sam and Louise Sullivan Announce New Album ‘Love & Devotion’ Featuring Star Moles

Philly-based sibling duo Sam and Louise Sullivan have announced their third album, Love & Devotion , which will be out July 24 via Historic New Jersey Recordings. The album was made with Kevin Basko of Rubber Band Gun, who produced the record, Emily Moales of Star Moles on keyboards and additional vocals, and Jem Seidel on drums (Kevin and Jem also play on this year’s Star Moles album ).

The first single from the album is the sweet and lightly twangy “Down on Love.” Louise says, “Down on Love is one of our wonky attempts at pop music. We were trying to write a down-the-middle love song, but, of course, we ended up with a manic, chromatic, folk-rock thing. Sam was in a period of insisting that Kevin record two drum takes on top of a drum machine for every song. Emily Moales sings backups.” Sam adds that “the riff is a misremembered beat from a rap song that was popular circa 2012.”

Listen to “Down on Love” below.

The duo have a couple upcoming shows including Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival which happens this weekend in North Adams, MA, and a show with Iron & Wine at Lowell, MA’s Boarding House Park on August 7 .

Love & Devotion:

1. Down on Love

2. Love & Devotion

3. There You Go Again

4. Miss Mercedes

5. Since I Left

6. Doing Time

7. My Guy

8. After All These Years

9. Irish Goodbye

10. Treehugger

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/sam-and-louise-sullivan-prep-new-lp-love-devotion-ft-star-moles-share-down-on-love/)._