Luyas Discography of CDs

Luyas songs From the first notes of "Montuno," the eight-minute opus that begins Animator, the third full-length from Montreal's orchestral dreamweavers the Luyas, there's an unsettled feeling that saturates the album. The song fades in just a little too slowly, with reverberated drum machine clicks and cold classroom film-strip synth sounds peeking around the corner before taking a disjointed turn for hovering strings and chaotic woodwinds, and ...

Luyas CD discography Whatever else can be said about Too Beautiful to Work, it's clearly a demonstration that the trend toward mini-pocket orchestras and detailed arrangements in whatever indie rock is supposed to be sometimes can turn out mesmerizing results. Instead of the far too typical drama production singalongs, the Luyas are somewhere else again -- maybe a blend of whatever space age pop became codified as in ...

Luyas albums From the first notes of "Montuno," the eight-minute opus that begins Animator, the third full-length from Montreal's orchestral dreamweavers the Luyas, there's an unsettled feeling that saturates the album. The song fades in just a little too slowly, with reverberated drum machine clicks and cold classroom film-strip synth sounds peeking around the corner before taking a disjointed turn for hovering strings and chaotic woodwinds, and ...

Luyas music CDs Whatever else can be said about Too Beautiful to Work, it's clearly a demonstration that the trend toward mini-pocket orchestras and detailed arrangements in whatever indie rock is supposed to be sometimes can turn out mesmerizing results. Instead of the far too typical drama production singalongs, the Luyas are somewhere else again -- maybe a blend of whatever space age pop became codified as in the wake of Stereolab and cocktails with their own ear for what a hook can be. (That Owen Pallett contributes to the arrangements seems only apt, given a similar drive toward the lush without being simply interested in re-creating the past too perfectly.) Jessie Stein's vocals, sometimes sweetly singsong and sometimes swoopingly strange, provide less of a central hook than might be guessed. If the album isn't shoegaze either, there's a similar appreciation of the possibilities of sinking into sound, where everything can be an instrument depending on the moment -- thus there are songs like "Worth Mentioning," "Moodslayer," and "Spherical Mattress" (the latter having one of the best titles around, suggesting something as bouncy as its arrangement). Elsewhere, slightly more straightforward songs like the skeletal feel of "Canary" and the skittering "Cold Canada," centered around a one-note loop even when looming banks of strings and sound fill in the background, keep each song from ever being quite like the song before it -- even while a general feel of the band as a whole continues through to the concluding "Seeing Things." Leave that song to wrap everything up on an almost 1968 Top ...

Luyas CD discography Track Listing of songs: When I am a Woman; Meet the Frownies;

Luyas discography Track Listing of songs: Flickering Lights; Cats In a Bag; Tantamount; Dumb Blood; Forget Penzance; Quelle Horreur; Play Dead; In My Next Life, a Workhorse;

Luyas songs Track Listing of songs: When I Am A Woman; Meet The Frownies;

Luyas albums Track Listing of songs: Song For Zula; Ramona; Next Stop; Fifty Fifty; 1904; Sinful Nature; You Are The One; There Is A Valley; In The Yard; Close;