Weirdo Shrine

La Luz - Weirdo Shrine
Critic Score
Based on 14 reviews
2015 Ratings: #436 / 1021
User Score
Based on 40 ratings
August 7, 2015 / Release Date
LP / Format
Hardly Art / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
Paste
What La Luz have going for them on their second album is a willingness to crank down the tempos to a sexy crawl that feel intended for bumping and grinding rather than shimmying or frugging.
83
A.V. Club

Weirdo Shrine is a burnt-orange filter thrown over a world of dark gray.

83
Consequence of Sound

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.

80
The 405

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.

80
American Songwriter
It’s a tricky balance but they pull it off effortlessly thanks to stylized songs that wallow in dusky, dim light, with cautionary lyrics and a commitment that four minutes is too long to spend on any tune.
80
Exclaim!

On Weirdo Shrine, La Luz have taken the advice "Let's get weird" to heart, creating a spooky dip into the surf.

71
Pitchfork
The ladies might have perfect pitch, but this is not an album for cleaning up mistakes.
70
AllMusic

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.

70
The Line of Best Fit

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.

70
Crack Magazine

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.

70
FLOOD Magazine
Ty Segall handles production duties on the album, and except for touches of fuzz here and there, he mostly seems to have tastefully stood back in order to emphasize the quartet’s own brand of melancholic surf rock, which they have successfully laid claim to here.
60
Drowned in Sound

Weirdo Shrine is a miraculous endeavour to behold, but as an album, it suffers because of its untamed splendour.

60
PopMatters

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.

60
The Sydney Morning Herald
The second album from Seattle's La Luz offers a tightening and hardening of their acid-tinged surfer rock, but fails to reproduce the catchy groove of their 2013 debut.
CheapandLethal
75

Decent

JohnLouisHoward
90

la win

Gupla
50

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

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Added on: May 19, 2015