Los Angeles Based Experimental Shoegaze LUSTER Combine Shoegaze Guitars and 90's Big Beat Electronica on Dopamine Loop on Funeral Party Records
First Single "Dopamine Loop" out 03.21.23
Out: 04.21.23 on Funeral Party Records (LP/DL)
Genres: Shoegaze, Electronic, Big Beat Electronica
RIYL: Nothing, Chemical Brothers, Bowery Electric, Seefeel, Slow Crush, The Crystal Method
LUSTER — BANDCAMP
We are really excited to bring you the latest release from Louisville, KY based Funeral Party Records. The Los Angeles based Experimental Shoegaze band LUSTER have carved out a unique sonic space with their latest album Dopamine Loop by combining swirling Shoegaze guitars and production a sprawling electronic percussion palate that recalls the hedonistic sugar-rush of late 90's / early 00's Big Beat Electronica - a genre that is no stranger to sonic excesses.
Luster is a shoegaze band from Los Angeles, California. True to the original sound of the genre; creating textures with "glider" guitars swirling throughout songs, and the sampling of break beats from the 90's house era, the band has added a newer edge to a commonly misidentified style of music.
Started by Adrian Castillo and Alvin Carillo, Luster was formed out of a desire to create a band that stands out against their contemporaries; the use of drum sampling and electronic elements has been present in their music since the beginning. With aggressive urgency that carries the bands music, Luster maintains a textured, softer approach to a sound that's been long since abandoned or forgotten. 2019 saw the release of their first full length, Turbulence, as a self-release in collaboration with Los Angeles record label, Atwater Records. In 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic and rising political unrest, Luster released their second official release titled Blue Oblivion as a 4 song EP on Funeral Party Records; with the help of co-production, mixing, and mastering by Nick Bassett (Whirr, Nothing, Deafheaven, Death of Lovers). Luster is set to release their second LP titled Dopamine Loop, featuring the lead single “Thorn in Yr Kiss”, on Funeral Party Records in 2023. Regardless of ones own place in the world, it is without a doubt that Los Angeles has a sound. An extraordinary, unmistakable, and vibrant sound, colored by the people and cultures that embody it: Heat, high end fashion, dust, smoke, skate culture, punk, hip-hop, sampling, Hollywood, club culture, neon lights, late nights, deserted hills, hard work, and dreams both made and totally crushed. Lust, excess, passion, depth, shallowness, depravity, abandonment, love. This extreme duality of a place emanating its own strain of a quite palpable dream filled black magic has spawned some of the greatest and most highly celebrated cultural icons spanning film, music, art and beyond - and for every one single success story there is undoubtedly 1,000 opposites. It is this pressured, otherworldly environment and duality that explains how L.A. would spawn such a band like Luster.
Utterly beautiful, yet melancholic - Damaged, yet brand new. A hungry, innovative shine and sheen of the now beyond rich (and often Los Angeles centered) scene of ‘post-post-synth / 80’s revival etc. - Far too often, bands of this nature in today's quick to summarize era, are pigeonholed as simply the retreading of sounds already once made - This would be an all too lazy observation of a shoe-gaze sound indeed all their own. From the first single, ‘Thorn In Yr Kiss’, it is greatly apparent the elegance and grandiose of Dopamine Loop’s songwriting and production while also retaining an immediate honesty and intimacy. 90’s throwback reversed and filtered drum loops, tear wrenching guitars, massive atmospheric tones and detailed textures all dripped with smoke and vapor hazed vocals. Each track holds interesting choices containing both a unique and unabashed use of electronics, while soaking tracks in stratosphere dwelling guitars and traditional, cult post-punk instrumentation. Ethereal and dreamlike, dark and dizzying, massive and exciting. The sound of Los Angeles. - Brandon Hill / Starved Relations
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