"I'm the golden one, only just begun, I'm taking everyone down with me or am I just building them up?"
There is a potent, formidable, even angry boiling over swagger to the punk laden "English Dream" by the four piece Yorkshire band LUMER. Ben Morrod's sultry bass walk, William Evans' pounding drums, the double time guitar strikes courtesy of Ben Jackson and Alex Evans strong swept back vocal countenance all is saturated in a cool stare until some of the swagger steps back to reveal vast sounds and imagery laced with dark romantic sonics. I am really loving the complex emotional narrative, the duality of personas.
As cinematic as "English Dream" feels, cold stares and post punk ascension and all, the song is a bit of social commentary as Alex shares:
“English Dream tries to epitomize my cynical view of my country. Why are you supposed to put so much in for very little in return? There is this constant battle, it seems, to find any form of joy in the political and social climate that we are currently surrounded by. I feel that we have to crawl on our knees for our leaders whilst very little is being done in protest from our people”.
LUMER holds up a mirror to their country, maybe to societies all over really. Real people are drowning in a unclaimed recession while corporations are raking in record profits. Fuck me, right? Fuck all of us.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://soundcloud.com/lumeruk
https://twitter.com/LUMERband
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1HYfeK27HDtxQ0rCcoaGtX
https://www.instagram.com/lumer_uk/
2019 saw LUMER release the single, ‘White Tsar’; record a live session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios; appear at Goldsounds Festival (Leeds, UK) with Fat White Family, twice at Left of the Dial Festival (Rotterdam, Netherlands), as well as supporting Crows on tour around the UK.
The February after, the band embarked on a week-long headline French tour in support of “blinding” new single, ‘Another Day at the Zoo’ - the second from their latest EP, ‘The Disappearing Act’, recorded & mixed by Alex Greaves. Vocalist, Alex Evans worked with Designer Hedi Slimane as part of his Portrait of a Performer series, featuring on the front cover of HERO Magazine.
In January 2021, the band released their debut EP to much critical acclaim. Then after a forceable hiatus due to the lockdown, the band returned to Europe playing a tour across France, as well as appearances at Croc The Rock Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland) with Egyptian Blue and another appearance at Left of the Dial Festival (Rotterdam, Netherlands) with Unschooling and BDRMM.
In November, they supported US band Thee Oh Sees (Leeds, UK) as the group released their single ‘Hatred is a Passion of Theirs’ in March 2022. The single got a host of radio play from BBC Radio One and Radio 6 as well as a tasteful music video supported by Fred Perry. The release was accompanied by a UK tour and ongoing to a summer tour spanning festivals abroad including; Levitation Festival in France with Kim Gordon and Brian Jonestown Massacre, Valkhof Festival in the Netherlands alongside Just Mustard and Crack Cloud, finally, Binic Festival in France with Warmduscher among many more EU festivals.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://soundcloud.com/lumeruk
https://twitter.com/LUMERband
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1HYfeK27HDtxQ0rCcoaGtX
https://www.instagram.com/lumer_uk/
2019 saw LUMER release the single, ‘White Tsar’; record a live session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios; appear at Goldsounds Festival (Leeds, UK) with Fat White Family, twice at Left of the Dial Festival (Rotterdam, Netherlands), as well as supporting Crows on tour around the UK.
The February after, the band embarked on a week-long headline French tour in support of “blinding” new single, ‘Another Day at the Zoo’ - the second from their latest EP, ‘The Disappearing Act’, recorded & mixed by Alex Greaves. Vocalist, Alex Evans worked with Designer Hedi Slimane as part of his Portrait of a Performer series, featuring on the front cover of HERO Magazine.
In January 2021, the band released their debut EP to much critical acclaim. Then after a forceable hiatus due to the lockdown, the band returned to Europe playing a tour across France, as well as appearances at Croc The Rock Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland) with Egyptian Blue and another appearance at Left of the Dial Festival (Rotterdam, Netherlands) with Unschooling and BDRMM.
In November, they supported US band Thee Oh Sees (Leeds, UK) as the group released their single ‘Hatred is a Passion of Theirs’ in March 2022. The single got a host of radio play from BBC Radio One and Radio 6 as well as a tasteful music video supported by Fred Perry. The release was accompanied by a UK tour and ongoing to a summer tour spanning festivals abroad including; Levitation Festival in France with Kim Gordon and Brian Jonestown Massacre, Valkhof Festival in the Netherlands alongside Just Mustard and Crack Cloud, finally, Binic Festival in France with Warmduscher among many more EU festivals.
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