My Review: Lauds - Imitation Life

 Lauds - Imitation Life

There are five of them, they come from North Carolina and have just released a fresh, positive LP that entertains as music can: giving wings and smiles.

Four songs were present in the previous Ep of this band that is able to illuminate Dreampop with a light that smells of a stratospheric but repeatable past, indeed, improvable, through these dreamy dynamics, often running, to run into beauty.

The lightness comes from James McKay Glasgow's singing, his keyboards and guitars still his and J Holt Evans III's.

Everything glides with this whirlwind that touches the skin, the American boys skim poetry that does not darken, even if in their songwriting the lyrics sometimes reveal a profound observation of important themes. But they do so with grace, respect, leaving our feathers clean and content. With them, time remains alive, through hatchings that seem to erase wrinkles and restore positivity. An album that excites, conquers, makes us feel privileged to exist. 

What is extraordinary in these ten compositions is that every part of the world can feel represented, because of the need for them to be a continuous embrace that belongs to everyone...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

29th March  2023

https://fortlowell.bandcamp.com/album/imitation-life