Dolorosa

Description

Dolorosa is the sophomore album by the American indie pop band Duraluxe, released on Meddle Records in 1999. The album was recorded and mixed by band members Chris Colbert and Troy Daugherty at Studio Dolorosa in Nashville, Tennessee; and as well recorded and mixed by Keith Cleversley at The Playground in Chicago, Illinois. Produced by Cleversley, Colbert, and Daugherty.

Duraluxe was formed in 1997 when former Hoi Polloi member Troy Daugherty joined forces with Chris Colbert of Breakfast With Amy fame, a Los Angeles native musician who also had experience working as an engineer and producer.

The second album by Nashville-to-Los Angeles transplants Duraluxe blends the chilly near-symphonic space rock of Spiritualized and their ilk with the warped, folk-inflected neo-psychedelia of the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, and Mercury Rev while managing to avoid the clichés of both styles. The first track, «Shady Mess», opens with the kind of Krautrock-inspired soundscapes that My Bloody Valentine or Spacemen 3 specialized in, but then somehow transmogrifies into a clever, catchy pop song built on freaky-goosey organ parts and sheets of sound guitar akin to the lo-fi playfulness of the Olivia Tremor Control. The album continues to cycle between those two sets of influences, mostly sticking to the latter on garage-poppy tunes like the Pavement-influenced “Queen of Centerville” and the former on trippy sonic experiments like «Seeing Me» and «Jesus Will Supply Me». More produced and focused than their haphazard debut, Dolorosa shows what Duraluxe are capable of. [Stewart Mason, AMG]

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CD tracklist:

01. Shady Mess
02. Queen Of Centerville
03. Change Your Mind
04. Lowly Creatures
05. Wish List
06. Don’t Hesitate
07. In Time
08. Diabolical Scheme
09. Jesus Will Supply Me
10. Happy 4th Of July
11. Seeing Me

Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://duraluxe.bandcamp.com/album/dolorosa