Modern Love

Modern Love is a record label associated with the staff behind Pelicanneck, a Manchester record store that later evolved into the online retailer Boomkat. According to available label notes, Modern Love was founded in 2002, positioning it within a wider local ecosystem of record retail and music curation that grew out of Pelicanneck’s activities.

The label’s identity is reflected in the range of artists connected to its catalogue, which spans experimental and contemporary underground music. Modern Love has released work by artists such as Carrier and Debit, alongside figures whose practices often intersect with avant-garde composition and exploratory sound, including Lucy Railton and Delphine Dora. The label’s roster also points to an interest in idiosyncratic songwriting and boundary-adjacent pop forms, with artists such as Jonnine and Elaine Howley appearing among its notable names.

Modern Love’s output also includes projects that sit comfortably in the space between club-oriented electronics, abstract sound design, and art-music approaches. Releases by CS + Kreme and Sara Udon illustrate the label’s openness to varied methods and aesthetics, from collaborative studio experimentation to more intimate, singular voices. Rather than presenting a narrow genre mandate, the label’s selections suggest a curatorial approach shaped by listening culture and the perspective of people embedded in record retail and discovery.

Modern Love’s public presence is maintained through its website, modern-love.co.uk. Beyond the founding information linking it to Pelicanneck and the later emergence of Boomkat, further details about its internal structure or operations are not specified in the provided material.