The follow-up to debut single ‘Evergreen’, ‘Hard 2 Love’ is a powerpoptastic new track from four-piece MARKETPLACE, with a video that ranges from The King Johns Tavern and Middleton Grange Shopping Centre in the band’s home town of Hartlepool, via Paris in a flying car and into outer space. The visuals are fun and celebratory, like the song itself which after a distant guitar introduction bursts into life and doesn’t give up for the next three minutes.
The lyric is actually threaded through with a bit of melancholy ‘….the moon will cry in shades of blue….the sun will crack the sky for you…but not I…’ but the energy of the chorus overcomes any downbeat feelings ‘….with you, with you…with me, with me… I sometimes find it hard to love!’ Sung with feeling over a concoction of dual jangling guitars and sharpened bass and drums it is as welcome as the distilled essence of summer in a glass.