Lumerians: The High Frontier (Partisan Records, 2013)
August 9, 2013 at 10:17 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Lumerians: The High Frontier
Seriously good psych-kraut-space-rock. Intricate synth and guitar melodies, drum machines and live drums, droning organ, and non-obscured vocals. I don’t know why this album surprised me as much as it did, maybe I heard something by them before and wasn’t into it, but this album is just really well done. The songs generally run about 5 or 6 minutes, but they don’t seem to go on too long or get bogged down with endless soloing. They stay fresh and energetic and even funky, in a Can sort of way, especially “High Frontier”. “Koman Tong” is sort of like Afrobeat space-rock. “Smokies Tangle” is instrumental, and “Life Without Skin” starts with spoken female vocals in Spanish, before kicking into a faster, chase-like rhythm, then calming down with wordless vocals and vibraphone (or similar instrument), and then heating up with a hot organ sound and hand percussion. Really solid stuff.
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