Burbling up from Silverlake, CA, Wake Up Lucid delivers a
sharp, 30-minute rush through the past forty years of scuzz-rock on their
latest ep, “Gone With the Night”.
Produced by the Icarus Line’s Joe Cardamone, the band shares a
sensibility and sonic bloodline with Cardamone’s band…the guitars are in the
red ala “Raw Power” and the band alternately rushes and lurches down musical
back alleys that are redolent of their So Cal surroundings. Ryan Baca’s voice, ensconced in the maelstrom
of opener, “White Collar Love” (itself a nicely Stooge-y groover) strangles
notes in all the right ways…he imbues lines like “Done too many drugs, and now
you don’t feel anymore…and all you want is more” with a perfect amount of
weariness and understanding. The night’s
going to go on forever, and even though you’re long past the point of this
being fun, you’re gonna ride it out.
Nine-minute juggernaut “Get Fucked” sums up the band’s aesthetic
nicely: “Give us something real, something we can feel. Or get fucked”. Baca’s guitar’s pulsating notes bounce and
wah-wah back and forth over his cousin Ian’s lumbering bass as other cousin
Jamie bashes away on the kit. If it sounds a bit too similar to X’s “My
Goodness”, I don’t see that as a problem.
Wake Up Lucid have all the right influences and make simple, powerful
rawk.
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