La Luz (Coloured Viny LP) discogimp

La Luz (Coloured Viny LP) discogimpOn their self titled fourth album, La Luz launch themselves into a new realm of emotional intimacy for a collection of songs steeped in the mysteries of the natural world and the magic of human chemistry that has found manifestation in the musical ESP between guitarist and songwriter Shana Cleveland, bassist Lena Simon, and keyboardist Alice Sandahl. To help shape La Luz, the band found a kindred spirit in producer Adrian Younge. Though primarily

had a distribution relationship with Decca until shortly before the latter was taken over by Polygram

but for all intents and purposes

"A woman's time / A woman's work / A woman's time to embrace / She must put herself first"

'Feast to Famine's' hard luck story floats above a guitar part so strung out and washed with distortion it's become barely recognisable

His self-titled album opens with the unadorned guitar-and-vocal Demon Host

On their debut

was pretty inventive and colourful

unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist's Paris Tapes (1986-1997)

all the while laying down a sonic groundwork which is always experimental and unexpected

Paul Humphries (drums)

from angelic choirgirl falsetto to creepy whisper to shredded gut howls

golden sound