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Sep 25, 2015What 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.
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Aug 7, 2015The real highlight of Weirdo Shrine comes from Cleveland’s guitar playing. Nearly every song on the record features either a solo or a break for the singer to take over and shine with her instrument.
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Aug 4, 2015Weirdo Shrine is a fog to get lost in, to put on repeat and let the tangled guitar melodies take root. They’re a light in their own darkness, guiding themselves to newer and more intricate spaces.
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Sep 28, 2015Weirdo Shrine is everything that the debut was and more.
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Aug 19, 2015The band’s mechanics are becoming more masterful, with Marian Li Pino’s drums particularly boosted on this outing.
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Aug 5, 2015The vocal harmonies on Weirdo Shrine are eerily perfect, fading in and out of the driving instrumentals.
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Aug 4, 2015This LP is clearly the product of four immensely talented musicians with a clear vision of asphalt soaked in rain and asphalt, the fears of death reflected upon by shining a flashlight through a hazy, ominously beautiful mist.
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Aug 4, 2015At 11 tracks that clock in just over half an hour, it’s done too quickly. But we spend just enough time in La Luz’s nocturnal surf world to push repeat and return again, an action the best albums always provoke.
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Aug 4, 2015The undercurrent of darkness in La Luz's music is what makes their work so fierce and intelligent. You could blink and miss their sneaky, underhanded way of slipping unease into their cheerful-sounding songs.
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Aug 12, 2015If you like this sort of thing, then you’ll like it; if you’re indifferent toward it, then you’ll easily move on unaffected; if this isn’t your bag, it still won’t be.
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Aug 7, 2015Weirdo 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.
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Aug 27, 2015As odd of a notion it is, as a setlist for a show, Weirdo Shrine is a miraculous endeavour to behold, but as an album, it suffers because of its untamed splendour.
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Aug 19, 2015Much of the material ends up sounding similar with no one track standing out from the pack.