{"id":37509,"date":"2015-09-23T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=37509"},"modified":"2015-10-25T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T02:19:09","slug":"la-luz-weirdo-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/09\/23\/la-luz-weirdo-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"La Luz: Weirdo Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/La-Luz-Weirdo-Shrine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37511\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/La-Luz-Weirdo-Shrine.jpg\" alt=\"La Luz Weirdo Shrine\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/La-Luz-Weirdo-Shrine.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/La-Luz-Weirdo-Shrine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/La-Luz-Weirdo-Shrine-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a>Seattle-based female quartet La Luz has returned with follow up record <em>Weirdo Shrine<\/em>, the first since the band\u2019s debut LP <em>It\u2019s Alive <\/em>was released in October of 2013. Following the debut\u2019s release, the band was involved in a car accident a month later in small town during their tour. Although none of the members were seriously hurt, the band was left shaken and in need of a new van and new gear.<\/p>\n<p>Now only two years removed from the accident which forced the band to cancel a slew of tour dates, the group\u2019s latest release <em>Weirdo Shrine <\/em>is out via Hardly Art Records and was produced by Ty Segall. If you\u2019re into psychedelic centerfolds with 3D glasses, it\u2019s got that, too. The band channels a focused resilience on this album and pours in it its glass half-full of mystique and dreamy wonder-wop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Can\u2019t Speak\u201d resonates with this and creates a haunting stillness accented by droning organ and paintbrush vocal harmonies. In the thirty or so minutes to choose from, <em>Weirdo Shrine <\/em>maintains an adventurous, psych aura throughout with tracks like \u201cI Wanna Be Alone (With You)\u201d that sound like The Black Angels with your eyes closed. The band is borderline bewitching on \u201cI\u2019ll Be True\u201d with dark, reverberated guitar that moves like molasses and waning organ returning.<\/p>\n<p>The album concludes marvelously with the tender resolution \u201cTrue Love Knows.\u201d Whether it\u2019s four-part falsetto harmonies or fantastically phased guitar, the band\u2019s fawning brand of fab, femme rock has you covered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Recommended If You Like: Ty Segall, Dum Dum Girls, Shannon and the Clams, Mountain Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 7 (I Wanna Be Alone (With You)), 3 (With Davey), 1 Sleep Til They Die, 11 (True Love Knows)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp on 09\/23\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Luz maintain an adventurous, psych aura throughout Weirdo Shrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":37511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[2639,3586,3587],"class_list":["post-37509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-la-luz","tag-weirdo-shrine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/La-Luz-Weirdo-Shrine.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}