2007’s Imagine Our Love is the debut album from Los Angeles-based Lavender Diamond, a tour-de-force of gorgeous melody and uplifting sentiment. Led by the shining, charismatic spirit Becky Stark, Lavender Diamond bring a punk-rooted DIY aesthetic to their enormously entertaining, heartfelt – and vaguely subversive – blend of 60s enthusiasm and 70s-style songwriting. Produced by Thom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Devendra Banhart), Imagine Our Love pulls together elements of folk, pop, country, performance art, children’s music, and protest anthems to make one of the most original musical statements heard in years.