Lucero
Among the Ghosts
Release Date: Aug 3, 2018
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Liberty And Lament
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Album Review: Among the Ghosts by Lucero
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Lucero are a rock band, one that plays music that isn't afraid to hit hard or lay out the boogie, but their notion of good times has never been simple. They know that you need the bad times to make the good times truly meaningful, and it's the darker side of life that takes center stage on 2018's Among the Ghosts. On these ten songs, Lucero's protagonists struggle with lost love ("Among the Ghosts"), brushes with death ("Bottom of the Sea"), wartime separation ("To My Dearest Wife"), loneliness ("Back to the Night"), and other themes that lurk in the emotional shadows, and the music never sugarcoats the deeply personal, sometimes uncomfortable messages in the lyrics.
Based on rating 7.4/10
Lucero have made albums with the blazing immediacy of a house fire: 1372 Overton Park from 2009 is practically a greatest-hits collection, full of ballsy riffs, brash horns and bare-knuckle lyrics that can knock you down flat. Among the Ghosts isn't that kind of album. After more fully exploring a hometown sound on the soul-laced All a Man Should Do in 2015, the Memphis band is in a somber mood on its latest.
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