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Review: 'Luminous Beings'
'Horrors'   

-  Label: 'Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '24.6.22.'

Our Rating:
Luminous Beings is the solo project of Michael Wright an American based in London who fled the controlling confines of his religious upbringing in Portland to be re-born in Los Angeles.

The album opens with The Watchmakers Son that sounds a bit like Architects, if they got Thom Yorke in on vocals, in the middle the riffage gives way to a more prog metal breakdown, before the drumbeat to get us marching off to war comes back and the song builds with some odd elements once more.

Life-Giver is a yelp of pain and distress for all that Michael Wrights Life-Givers or parents if you prefer inculcated into him at a young age, how he came to reject their teachings, as he became an adult and left home, the music swirls around and pummels in equal measure like your trying to escape the storm that's crashing in all around you.

Colorless is in no way as bland as the title might suggests, but opens as a quiet pensive song with bitter regret at how hard he had to reject his past to make his new life a reality, the bass comes in ponderously to add a dash of color and lift him out of the dark pit of despair, into a more colorful and free life as the guitars eventually explode and he finally feels with all his senses.

Life-Vessel has odd time signatures and driven drums set against the yowling angst vocals and a bass that falls down as the song breaks apart in the middle, then slowly starts to rebuild like he is re-building himself to become part man part machine, as a way to avoid drowning in self-pity and petty hatreds.

Loss is a short repeating burst of pain for those that have gone and aren't coming back. As it leads into the reflective opening of Bodies that's full of pain and sorrow and at one point goes semi choral with blasting drums.

Serenity is certainly not a serene piece of music, more like they have left a couple of guitars expiring near an amp and added a few other things on top for color. Spectrums brings those colors to life with shimmering guitar and pained vocals seeking some resolution.

Ouroboros sounds like a mythical beast as depicted in the vocals once the initial tirade of noise subsides and builds with seemingly out of sync bass and guitars battling with each other trying to escape from the pain of their past and leave all the bad blood behind.

The album closes with Ednew that sounds like it would soundtrack a larp scenario with Ednew as the invading ogre set on a course of destruction, as this slowly unfolds and hopes for new beginnings and a better life that's not controlled by the evil ones.

Find out more at https://music.luminous-beings.net/album/horrors???https://luminous-beings.net/ https://www.facebook.com/beingsluminous


  author: simonovitch

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