LA duo, LUCKYANDLOVE make music at a point where the passions and feelings of the human condition meet the cooler climes, in both senses of the word, of the realm of the machine. In this place, the intangibility of emotions and irrationality of thought are translated into the ones and zeroes of the digital dimension. It’s an interface between worlds, and it is an exciting place to find yourself.
Ahead of their third album, Humaura, they offer us a pair of singles of beguiling beauty that echo feelings as old as our existence, while pointing to the future of music. There is a delicate irony found at the heart of “Lonely At Night,” as there is with a lot of their music. As synths swirl and wash, creating a digital hazy and ornate electronic cocoon of sounds, the song underlines the importance of connectivity, of the need he have for others in our lives, of intimacy and love, the personal touch in the most tangible and tactile of ways, all the things that the digital world can only dream of being able to replicate.
This idea is taken to even further extremes with “I Am Human,” where the distance between the pulsing, future-dance sound of the music creates an even wider gulf between sound and sentiment.
This clever embrace that LUCKYANDLOVE encapsulates is nothing short of brilliant; it is the sound of creativity heading unashamedly into the future, crashing through sonic boundaries and creative horizons, pushing technology to the limit, and experimenting with the sound of what is yet to come. But as they do so, they never lose sight of who we are as people, what we need to feel alive and what it means to be human – the perfect balance of adventure and understanding.
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Bandcamp I Am Human
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