Luchi
Interesting to note that music is one of very few things that can be positively described as moody. I’ve never been set up for a date with the line, “Yeah, she’s really moody and brooding, you’ll love it”. Additionally, I’ve never been set up for a date, but if I had and it was prefaced with that sort of comment, that’d be it for me.
I think that’s a pretty apt description of the Luchi EP you now find before you. Not dark, not brooding, just moody. It has many of the trappings of lilting folkcoustica but it’s bathed in low bit drum samples so odds on the thing probably was’t birthed in Justin Vernon’s barn. For a first offering it’s a sparkling effort. I’d like to hear a little more mix-up on the beats and less regularity to the way they’re looped but I’m not a demanding guy. And let’s be fair, even if I was, this is a bit of alright. There’s a good bout of diversity amongst the five tracks and can I just say something? Can we pause for a second? I want to thank Luchi for not including an interlude. People need to settle down with the interludes. You’ve put out a five track EP, how poor do you think my attention span is? As if eight minutes in I’m going to pause the record, sit there for forty five seconds of silence and think to myself, “Where’s the interlude on this thing? I NEED A MOMENT.”
From the looks of things they haven’t been a bastion of productivity these past few years. Formed in 2010, Luchi finally released their first EP in 2012 and when you think about this mathematically (and why wouldn’t you) you’ll realize that this means the band have only managed to release 0.2 tracks per month – a figure that becomes even more alarming when divided by the number of band members. The individual output of each musician is 0.05 songs per month over the past two and a half years. That’s barely half a song a year.
Truly worth a download though. Available gratis on bandcamp, though if you feel like paying a few dollars I strongly endorse it. See below for a graphic representation of payment options.
I’d be very interested to see them live and luckily that opportunity is at hand as they’re playing FBi Social on June 22.