La Luz unveil ‘Black Hole, Weirdo Shrine’ video – Album Weirdo Shrine out now‏

Weirdo Shrine, the hotly-anticipated second album from La Luz, is out now. Available via Hardly Art, the album was recorded earlier this year in San Dimas with producer/engineer Ty Segall. To mark the occasion, the band has shared a new animated music video for sort-of title track ‘Black Hole, Weirdo Shrine’. Watch here.

For most, a brush with death would be cause for retreat, reflection, and reluctance, but Seattle band La Luz found something different in it: resilience. Having survived a high-speed highway collision shortly after releasing their 2013 debut LP It’s Alive, La Luz, despite lasting trauma, returned to touring with a frequency and tirelessness that put their peers to shame. Over the past year-and-a-half of performing, the band arrived at a greater awareness of their music’s ability to whip eager crowds into a frenzy. In response, frontwoman Shana Cleveland’s guitar solos took on a more unhinged quality. The basslines (from newly-installed member Lena Simon) became more lithe and elastic. Stage-dives and crowd-surfing grew to be as indelible a part of the La Luz live experience as their onstage doo-wop-indebted dance moves.

The resulting album is a natural evolution of the band’s self-styled “surf noir” sound—a rawer, turbo-charged sequel that charts themes of loneliness, infatuation, obsession and death across eleven tracks, from the opening credits siren song of ‘Sleep Till They Die’ to the widescreen, receding-skyline send-off of ‘Oranges’ and its bittersweet epilogue, ‘True Love Knows.’

Weirdo Shrine is available now. La Luz come to the UK in October.

Tour Dates:
16^th October – Brighton, UK – Bleach
17^th October – Manchester, UK – The Eagle Inn
19^th October – Glasgow, UK – The Hug & Pint
20^th October – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
21^st October – Cardiff, UK – Moon Club
22^nd October – London, UK – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen