Second Nature

Lucius

Released on 08-04-2022 by Second Nature Records
Main artists: Lucius
Genre: Alternative en Indie

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Although they have always been a duo dedicated to establishing their own persona as a group, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig have in the past decade developed a side career as backup vocalists that's threatened to become their main gig. Since their last album of all originals, 2016's Good Grief they have sung behind and made friends with the notoriously prickly Roger Waters and added background vocals to albums by Harry Styles, Ozzy Osbourne, The War on Drugs, Brandi Carlile, and others. The last Lucius album, 2018's Nudes, was a mashup of covers, re-recordings of their older material, and even hoary chestnuts like "Goodnight, Irene." While one of this pair's greatest strengths—outside their ethereal harmonies—will always be their stylistic range, it was high time for them to make a new Lucius record. With their band of guitarist/keyboardist Peter Lalish, bassist Solomon Dorsey, and drummer Dan Molad, the duo are most comfortable in a bright '80s influenced synth pop groove, and this is the home turf they have returned to on Second Nature. Recorded in Nashville by producer Dave Cobb—who's best known for his Americana records—and Carlile, the results prove that both have a hidden talent for dance music. This is a layered, shimmering synthy dance record from the opening powerhouse duo of "Second Nature" and "Next to Normal," where the choruses of the latter make clear, "When I'm close to you I'm next to normal/ I feel immortal /I'm high without the paranoia." The title track feels like a mix of a '60s girl group single set to a percolating synth funk background populated by a clavinet, string arrangements, bongos, and music's current instrument du jour: mellotron. The harmonies of ABBA echo through the slower, bubbling under synths of "24." Although Cobb reportedly exclaimed "I wanna make a disco record!" during the sessions, tunes like the shiny, mid tempo synth-based numbers "Heartbursts" and the club track "Dance Around It" are moody new wave for a new century. The high note here though is undoubtedly, "The Man I'll Never Find," a majestically-paced pop opus that highlights the slight differences in their voices, as they search for the soulmate that they "Don't want it if it's easy" but who they dream about and "…every time that I wake up/ You'll be the first thing to cross my mind." Enriched by the enforced isolation of the pandemic and romantic travails, Second Nature shows just how serious Wolfe and Laessig were when they described the album as "dancing our way through the darkness." © Robert Baird/Qobuz

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