La Luz, “Floating Features” (Hardly Art, 2018)
Third album from these garage-punk/surf-rock PacNW women, and it’s definitely their best. The reverb-drenched tunes still hang dazed and hazy like swamp willows, but there’s an enticingly sharp melodic pop sensibility to them now that creates the emotional drama to pull off the mythic Americana they’ve always evoked, though now more decisively.
Try 1/ 2, 1/ 3, 2/1, 2/5
4/7/19

La Luz, “It’s Alive” (Hardly Art, 2013)
Garage-punk women playing surf/girl-group stuff, kind of a “Stones” to Best Coast’s “Beatles.” It’s got a really lovely, haunted late-night feel that conjures up the Cramps in an elegiac mood backing an undead Astrud Gilberto.
Try 1, 6
7/15/14

La Luz, “Floating Features” (Hardly Art, 2018)
Third album from these garage-punk/surf-rock PacNW women, and it’s definitely their best. The reverb-drenched tunes still hang dazed and hazy like swamp willows, but there’s an enticingly sharp melodic pop sensibility to them now that creates the emotional drama to pull off the mythic Americana they’ve always evoked, though now more decisively.
Try 1/ 2, 1/ 3, 2/1, 2/5
4/7/19