Name: Luca
Brand: Alex Maas

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BR009LP

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r16376184]

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Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl housed in Heavyweight Linen Grained Sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060168041913

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

BR009CD

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Download code: No

5060168041906

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Alex Maas

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Basin Rock

The music of Alex Maas has always mesmerised. Now, on his soul-baring solo debut <i>Luca</i>, the Texan and Black Angel's singer journey is taking an equally hypnotic detour along the wild trails of his indigenous homestead. Driven by the force of nature, each phase of life is celebrated through songs of love, hope, human connection whilst navigating perils of modern society and tentatively facing the darkness. 

Like the echoes of nature that Alex grew up around <i>Luca </i>dances like dandelions on a breeze but is spiked with a squint of suspicion as its percussion shimmers like that cautionary rattlesnake. His album crackles with the vintage warmth of Grace Slick or smoky melodies of Nico, rising like a campfire’s embers whilst taking cues from Beth Gibbons, Sam Cooke, Lee Hazlewood, Vashti Bunyan, Mississippi John Hurt, and Huun-Huur-Tu. 

Recorded at Space Flight Studios in Austin Luca was an evolutionary project with some early songs worked up from their acoustic origins whilst others were written more recently. Co-produced with long-time collaborator Brett Orrison, the record began its transformation from loner folk leanings to a worldlier embrace. Calling upon members of The Black Angels, Wide Spread Panic, Mien, the Sword, Jack White’s band the Eels. Stepping out on his own Maas is walking along his own untrodden path, offering an honest and true account of what has passed and what may yet come. Luca sings from the soul, is believable and could well be everything the world needs right now.

Luca

Music GB