The third full length release by married couple Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis was recorded over the course of a month in Brooklyn and is a further instalment of the duo's feed-the-head grooves which combine squelchy reggae, lounge disco, cosmic dub and analog electro-pop.
Coyes describes the album as a "nocturnal version of their sound" but advises against reading any devilish connotations into the title.
The name Lucifer was chosen to represent the start of something new; not unconnected with the fact that the track Beautiful Son is dedicated to the couple's new born son Mikko who is described as "a guiding light/muse for the album".
The record opens and closes with a pair of short instrumentals - Moonrise, two minutes of chiming minimalism, and the sparkly but brief Morning Star. The half a dozen tunes in between each stretch to six to seven minutes.
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The funky bass rhythms of Live Love sounds like a dreamy version of the Tom Tom Club while Cosmic Tides and Lo Hi are the most dub-friendly tunes.
Midnight In The Valley Of Shadows is like Santana's Jingo transported to a tropical nightclub while Dreambeat takes us "deep in the rhythm of love" with hypnotic beats of the kind Can specialised in.
The album cover looks very similar to the artwork on La Dusseldorf's 'Viva', a further Krautrock connection which is, I'm sure, no coincidence.
It's all so blissed-out and gently mesmerising that 'King Tubby meets the West Coast hipsters Uptown' would make a good subtitle.
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