La Luz returned this week with a brand new single entitled “In the Country” (Hardly Art). It is the band’s first release since their excellent 2018 LP Floating Features, also out on HA. Discussing the gorgeous and pensive new cut, the band’s frontperson Shana Cleveland offers:
“I moved to the country a few years ago after living in cities for most of my life. Being out in the middle of nowhere makes it easy to imagine how it would be possible to leave society all together. I love how in this track some of the most unnatural elements of the arrangement (synthesizers, fuzz, effects) create an atmosphere around the instruments that ends up feeling very natural–I can hear bugs buzzing around and bird sounds in different directions.”
Below, you can watch the La Luz video for “In the Country,” a sun bleached reminder “to stare at nature a little bit too long, and to appreciate what it shows you.”
