JESS WOLFE and Holly Laessig assure us they are not twins. They might as well be, though. With their soaring harmonies and impeccable vocals, it is practically impossible to tell them apart.
Does that really matter? Not when the Brooklyn duo can produce perfect pop songs. Part of the beauty of Lucius is that it’s hard to pin down their influences. Sometimes they are Talking Heads, at other times Bananarama, before metamorphosing in seconds into Shakespears Sister.
They scream like banshees in Nothing Ordinary but in the very next track, Two Of Us On The Run, they can turn down the volume and almost whisper through four-and-a-half minutes. Somehow, all of these disparate influences and this myriad of styles fuse really well. It shouldn’t work but what results is a work that’s almost euphoric.
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