La Luz - NEWS OF THE UNIVERSE - Import CD

Credits:

La Luz

Description:

La Luz, a psychedelic/surf-rock band from California, U.S.A., has completed a new album. La Luz, led by Shana Cleveland, releases News of the Universe, their first new album for Sub Pop and their fifth album with Mariam Kudus (Space Moth) on production. With a title taken from science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, the album expresses an expansion of consciousness brought on by a personal crisis, in which guitarist and songwriter Cleveland embraces a changing world with unconditional love. The News of the Universe News of the Universe is also a record born of disaster, a dark and beautiful piece of psychedelia that reflects Cleveland's experience with a breast cancer diagnosis just two years after the birth of her son.The powerful openness that pervades the album is brought about by the fact that it was produced entirely by women, from playing, writing, and producing to recording, engineering, and mastering. The album's powerful openness, which pervades the album, is due to the fact that it was performed, written, produced, recorded, engineered, and mastered entirely by women. That's what you hear on this album," says Cleveland. Working with producer Maryam Qudus (Spacemoth), Cleveland felt comfortable expressing the difficult and socially repressed emotions of women in an all-female environment. Unashamedly vulnerable, unabashedly feminine, and undeniably triumphant, News of the Universe is La Luz's most brutal record to date, but also her most blissful.

Tracklisting:

1.Reaching Up to the Sun
2.Strange World
3.Dandelions
4.Poppies
5.Good Luck With Your Secret
6.Always in Love
7.Close Your Eyes
8.I'll Go With You
9.Blue Moth Cloud Shadow
10.News of the Universe
11.Moon in Reverse
12.Blue Jay