Monday, August 27, 2018

Amaya Laucirica - Rituals

I don't know how difficult it is to make good music in this vein - dreamy, droney guitar-keys-and-voice driven pop - but Laucirica is very good, and has been across now three lps (previously, Early Summer and Sway). Good when punchier - such as on tracks 2 and 3 "Under The Tide" and "All of Our Time" - and equally so when stretching out a bit more (say on "Could This Be", later on), atmospherically sustained, and nearly completely free of melodic or arrangement/instrumentation cliche. An album that's easy to be carried away by.