Floating Features

by La Luz

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StrangeFlow This is bold and sweet and groovy, really cool album. Surf meets dreamy melodies! Favorite track: Mean Dream.

Joe Murphy This whole album is too cool. Well done Favorite track: Floating Features.

bet-listens One of the few album's I can listen to on repeat for hours. Favorite track: Cicada.

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1.	Floating Features 02:13	buy track
2.	Cicada 03:11	buy track
3.	Loose Teeth 02:48	buy track
4.	Mean Dream 03:34	buy track
5.	California Finally 03:21	buy track
6.	The Creature 03:28	buy track
7.	My Golden One 04:14	buy track
8.	Lonely Dozer 03:15	buy track
9.	Greed Machine 04:19	buy track
10.	Walking Into the Sun 02:45	buy track
11.	Don't Leave Me On the Earth 02:35	buy track

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Los Angeles has often been described as a “dream factory”--both a mecca where dreamers converge to pursue long-held aspirations, and a topography of hallucinogenic contradictions: enchanting tangerine sunsets diffused by smog, crystal-clutching spiritualists mingling with deep-pocketed narcissists, rows of scenic palms competing with garish billboards for commuters’ attention.

It was against this backdrop that the four members of La Luz--singer/guitarist Shana Cleve- land, drummer Marian Li Pino, keyboardist Alice Sandahl, and bassist Lena Simon--conceived of Floating Features, the band’s third studio album. For this, their most ambitious release yet, La Luz consulted landscapes both physical and psychological.

References to dreams abound on Floating Features. “Loose Teeth” catalyzes nightmare fuel into a propulsive, intentionally-disorienting collision of honeyed harmonies and Takeshi Terauchi-esque jetstreams of distorted surf guitar. “Mean Dream” unsurprisingly mines dream- state imagery, and the lyrics and melody for “Walking Into the Sun” actually came to Cleveland during a particularly-vivid night of deep sleep. Looming over the album’s coterie of surreal figures (gargantuan cicadas, a monstrous “Creature,” The Sun King, aliens, the titular “Lonely Dozer”) is the magnificent “Greed Machine,” a skulking, insatiable engine of consumption- -Nathanael West’s “business of dreams” fearsomely manifested.

Only La Luz could conjure up Floating Features’ Leone-on-LSD vibes, and the album finds the L.A. band at the height of their powers--golden rebels in a golden dream.

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released May 11, 2018

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