Lo Moon | I Wish You Way More Than Luck (LP)

Although its nine songs revolve entirely around a single unifying idea, of life and personality forged from the revelatory moments of lived experience, to describe Los Angeles band Lo Moon’s third outing, I Wish You Way More Than Luck, as a concept album wouldn’t be entirely correct. Sonically bold and ambitious, fiercely literate and imagistic, the songs dance around their theme, not so much playing from track to track, as flowing through peaks and troughs of fervent emotion. It’s the singular work of a group of musicians whose confidence and abilities have not only scaled the heights of their ambitions but outstripped them. Luck has little to do with it.

I Wish You Way More Than Luck is an album about leaving things behind—family, places, youth, relationships, time—and the traces that linger in the mind long after their physicality has receded. The infinitely transient. What is music, or songwriting, anyway, but memory married to emotion. Feeling sustained. Echoes of lives lived and lives imagined. An ethereal sense of self made tangible, by intangibles. Frequencies colliding. Until we are lost inside a moment. That moment is all. It defines us, and can inform us, if we let it. And we should.

Tracklist

A1        Borrowed Hills
A2        Waiting A Lifetime
A3        Connecticut
A4        When The Kids Are Gone
B1        Water
B2        Day Old News
B3        Mary In The Woods
B4        Evidence
B5        Honest

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: Strngr Records
Rel. Date: 04/05/2024
UPC: 691835884530

• Genre: Alternative
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP