Weirdo Shrine is a burnt-orange filter thrown over a world of dark gray.
La Luz aren’t just operating at a higher level than their surf-influenced contemporaries, they’ve moved into a completely different headspace. Weirdo Shrine is a fog to get lost in, to put on repeat and let the tangled guitar melodies take root.
It is the album's oddly affectionate and attractive takes on the macabre consequences of death, the kind the band managed to so narrowly escape, that propels Weirdo Shrine into the top-tier records of 2015.
On Weirdo Shrine, La Luz have taken the advice "Let's get weird" to heart, creating a spooky dip into the surf.
Weirdo Shrine shows La Luz are more than living up to the promise of their early work, and that they're still one of the most interesting and entertaining acts on the Pacific Northwest scene in 2015.
La Luz does travel further down their rabbit hole here, which is fine, as long as there’s eventually something worthwhile at the bottom of it.
You might not have thought surf-rock is as versatile as La Luz make it appear. In Weirdo Shrine, they bend between sultry and lovelorn to defiant and angry, but they lose none of the charm of the genre in doing so.
Weirdo Shrine is a miraculous endeavour to behold, but as an album, it suffers because of its untamed splendour.
Weirdo Shrine is more a solid collection of songs with a similar stylistic through line that helps each feel very much of a whole but prevents distinct tracks from making themselves known.
La paradoja de ser una banda de chicas que perfectamente encajaría en una película de Tarantino, es que en una de sus películas hay una banda de chicas parecida a La Luz. Weirdo Shrine es un proyecto donde las guitarras llenas de tremolo suenan como si salieran de un condado de Texas, y sus voceras se sientan desoladas por estar cruelmente encerradas, destapándose de todo apriete regional. Algunos de los tracks que conforman este álbum, varían de lo ... read more
1 | Sleep Till They Die 3:19 | |
2 | You Disappear 3:22 | |
3 | With Davey 2:17 | |
4 | Don't Wanna Be Anywhere 3:00 | |
5 | I Can't Speak 3:03 | |
6 | Hey Papi 1:46 | |
7 | I Wanna Be Alone (With You) 2:16 | |
8 | I'll Be True 3:28 | |
9 | Black Hole, Weirdo Shrine 3:04 | |
10 | Oranges 2:10 | |
11 | True Love Knows 3:36 |