Ears Wide Open: Wake Up Lucid
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Wake Up Lucid’s no-frills blues feels like a breath of fresh air amid all today’s tricked-out psychedelia and hybridized noise. The project of cousins Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca, the trio’s debut EP “Look Alive People,” recorded to 2-inch tape at the Village in West L.A. a year ago, crackles with bite-sized riffs and taut rhythms. Occasionally you’ll get a whiff of the Dead Weather or Wolfmother, and darned if singer-guitarist Ryan Baca’s wail doesn’t sound like “Been Caught Stealing”-era Perry Farrell on “Two Cents,” but mostly “Look Alive” affirms the muscle of a good old-fashioned power trio. And for a first outing, Wake Up Lucid is pretty ripped.
||| Download: “A Minor” and “Black Haired Woman”
||| Live: Wake Up Lucid, along with the Steelwells and Oh Darling, supports Wires in the Walls on Thursday night at Spaceland.
BEST BAND I’VE SEEN IN YEARS!
[…] water down rock ’n’ roll for the digital age. After thundering onto the scene with the EPs “Look Alive People” and “Sugar,” the Bacas found an ally in producer Joe Cardamone (the Icarus Line), who worked […]