La Luz Release Video Version Of ‘It’s Alive’ Ahead Of Next Week’s UK Tour
La Luz Release Video Version Of ‘It’s Alive’ Ahead Of Next Week’s UK Tour Debut album ‘It’s Alive’ released 31st March on Hardly Art
La Luz Release Video Version Of ‘It’s Alive’ Ahead Of Next Week’s UK Tour
Debut album ‘It’s Alive’ released 31st March on Hardly Art
http://laluzband.tumblr.com/ http://www.hardlyart.com/laluz.html Seattle’s La Luz have released a video version of their debut album, a selection of official and live recordings from ‘It’s Alive’, released on the 31st March via Hardly Art. This Sunday 30th March La Luz bring their wonderfully gritty take on surf and garage rock to the UK, kicking off with a show at Brighton’s Green Door Store, taking in Glasgow, Leeds Manchester and London’s Windmill on the 3rd April. The tour then continues on throughout April in Europe, full details of all the shows are below. La Luz are Shana Cleveland, Marian Li-Pino, Lena Simon and Alice Sandahl. They formed in 2012 and quickly became known for their stirring harmonies, effortlessly cool surf hooks and meandering bass lines. Their sound recalls the spartan American dream pop of Mazzy Star, the boundless joy of B-52’s and rumbling sequences of Link Wray, all executed with knowing 60s pop charm. Live, they’re all about connection: on stage they play as much for each other as for the audience, often resulting in most of the crowd (and sometimes the keyboard player) dancing down the centre line of a soul train. Watch the visual companion to ‘It’s Alive’ below.
Recorded with their friend and engineer Johnny Goss in a steamy trailer park last spring, ‘It’s Alive’ was released in October in the US on Hardly Art and gets its official UK release this month. From the first get-psyched drum roll and eerie chords of ‘Sure As Spring’, the dinged-up pop gem that opens the album, the rest moves like a slow drive on a dangerous road, slinking and bending as the terrain shifts. Smack in the middle is the title track, ‘It’s Alive’; a jangly rocker with a spooky refrain and marauding narrative that nails down the misty logic of the rest of the album. Two instrumentals, ‘Sunstroke’ and ‘Phantom Feelings’, showcase the band’s beach jam surf chops, and fall perfectly between the chilled out heartache that surrounds them. In Spanish, La Luz means “light” and that’s the perfect thing to evoke when your songs give the illusion of veering in the opposite direction. But lift out almost any lyric—a good excuse to give a closer listen to the delicate, four-part harmonies that are quickly becoming the band’s signature—and you’ll find that the aches and pains of love and loss, of living in a world where no foothold is ever a promise. All this is delivered with a nuanced dose of perfectly timed exhilaration, like the whole thing might just be worth it in the end. La Luz UK + European live dates: 28th March – La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris, France 29th March – Kliko Festival, Haarlem, The Netherlands 30th March – Green Door Store, Brighton – get tickets 31st March – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds – get tickets 1st April – Mono, Glasgow – get tickets 2nd April – Gullivers Bar, Manchester – get tickets 3rd April – The Windmill, Brixton, London – get tickets 4th April – STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium (with Angel Olsen) 5th April – Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 7th April – El Lokal, Zürich, Switzerland 8th April – Bad Bonn, Dudlingen, Switzerland 9th April – La Dynamo, Toulouse, France 10th April – Sidecar, Barcelona, Spain 11th April – Charade, Madrid, Spain 12th April – Guardeche, San Sebastián, Spain 14th April – Raindogs, Savona, Italy 15th April – Rocket, Milano, Italy 16th April – Manufaktur, Schorndorf, Germany 17th April – Monarch, Berlin, Germany 18th April – Astra-stube, Hamburg, Germany 19th April – Instant Karma @ De Grote Post, Oostende, Belgium