Mad Love (EP)

Mad Love
An abstract painting featuring black-and-white lines and alternating shades of blue. In the top-left corner there is a photograph of a woman; in the top-right corner black lowercase text reads "Lush" and yellow lowercase text above it reads "Mad Love".
EP by
Lush
Released26 February 1990 (1990-02-26)
RecordedDecember 1989 (1989-12)
Studio
Genre
Length11:48
Label4AD
ProducerRobin Guthrie
Lush chronology
Scar
(1989) 		Mad Love
(1990) 		Sweetness and Light
(1990)

Mad Love is the debut extended play by the English alternative rock band Lush. It was released on 26 February 1990 by 4AD. Produced by Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie, Mad Love was composed of four tracks—including a rerecording of "Thoughtforms", a song from Lush's debut mini-album Scar (1989).

In contrast to Scar, Mad Love features more polished production techniques and expansive music styles, including elements of jangle pop, post-punk and shoegazing. It was well received in the United Kingdom and the United States, with Mad Love being the band's first release to place in the mainstream UK Singles Chart and its opening track "De-Luxe" in the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. A minor success, it topped the UK Independent Singles Chart upon release.