Lucius – Wildewoman (The New Recordings) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lucius – Wildewoman (The New Recordings) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:08 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Play It Again Sam

Lucius have signed with Fantasy Records for future album releases, including the first, an all-new re-recording of the group’s seminal Wildewoman album. Wildewoman (The New Recording) includes 12-13 freshly recorded tracks, including songs with featured appearances by Brandi Carlile, Marcus Mumford and Devon Gilfillian. Though the original album had a dozen tracks, Carlile — who produced the band’s previous album — is on a 13th track, “Housewarming,” that was not part of the original album back in 2013, but is considered a fan favorite.

Wildewoman, the Mom + Pop-issued debut long-player from stylish Brooklyn-based indie pop outfit Lucius, is a strange beast. On the one hand, it’s an evocative, sepia-toned torch ballad of a record that invokes names like Neko Case and Phil Spector, and on the other, it flirts with propulsive, Santigold-kissed R&B and dense, ’80s-fueled, Killers-esque melodrama. As polarizing as the sudden shifts in style can be, it’s hard not to get caught up in the luster of it all, as co-frontwomen and Berklee College of Music voice majors Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig are both formidable sirens who can croon, coo, comfort, and howl with the best of them, and when paired with the lush chamber/electro-pop production and meticulously detailed playing from drummer Danny Molad and guitarists Peter Lalish and Andrew Burri, the results can be dizzying. Wildewoman is at its best when all of the group’s proclivities are tossed into the pot, re-seasoned, and simmered until done, and songs like the propulsive “Turn It Around,” the lush title cut, and the roaring “Tempest” navigate the spaces between those predilections with great aplomb, creating a surprisingly listenable hybrid of country, new wave, AOR pop, and NPR-baiting indie rock in their wake. When the group shimmies back down to O Brother, Where Art Thou? territory, like on the bluesy “Go Home,” the Lumineers-inspired “Two of Us on the Run,” and, to a lesser extent, the atmospheric and vaudevillian “Monsters,” Wildewoman can feel a little rote, but to its credit, never dull, due in large part to Wolfe and Laessig’s commanding performances. – James Christopher Monger

Tracklist:
01. Lucius – Wildewoman (The New Recording) (04:12)
02. Lucius – Turn It Around (The New Recording) (03:29)
03. Lucius – Go Home (feat. Marcus Mumford) (The New Recording) (03:28)
04. Lucius – Hey, Doreen (The New Recording) (04:37)
05. Lucius – Tempest (The New Recording) (04:11)
06. Lucius – Nothing Ordinary (The New Recording) (03:10)
07. Lucius – Two of Us on the Run (The New Recording) (04:35)
08. Lucius – Until We Get There (The New Recording) (03:31)
09. Lucius – Don’t Just Sit There (The New Recording) (03:49)
10. Lucius – Housewarming (The New Recording) (04:10)
11. Lucius – Monsters (The New Recording) (03:29)
12. Lucius – How Loud Your Heart Gets (The New Recording) (05:24)
13. Lucius – Genevieve (The New Recording) (03:58)

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