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Apr 28, 2025A fantastic example of world-building, Maria Somerville has create something unique and truly forward-thinking; a cryptic, ghostly song cycle, ‘Luster’ will undoubtedly rank as one of 2025’s most significant releases.
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Apr 25, 2025Feels like an evolutionary leap akin to that of Cocteau Twins between Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas; the first was pretty, the second is sublime.
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Apr 29, 2025In an era of genre-less music, it’s nice to hear an album that does one thing and does it well, capturing a landscape so old it never really gets old.
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Apr 25, 2025She has an expansive purview: part of the thrill of Luster is listening closely enough to pick up on the traces of pop, hymnal, trip-hop and experimental electronic music that lies beneath.
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Apr 25, 2025Luster is an accomplished, affecting work that finds strength and clarity through introspection and forgiveness.
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Apr 25, 2025The wordless interstitial Flutter is abstract and freeform, its processed violin combining with cranked up electronics into a great surge, but Somerville can just as easily channel that spirit of experimentation into a perfect pop song like all her forebears.
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MojoMay 14, 2025Luster is less dreamy than blurry, as if her subconscious is piloting this deep-trawling ambient indie with breathy vocals submerged in waves of drone and fuzz. [Jul 2025, p.86]