Sizzles like New York City summer heat, this one does.
We delighted to premiere the new track from LuLu Lewis, the duo of Pablo Martin (Tom Tom Club, The Du-Rites) and Dylan Hundley (Metropolitan) who just happen to be husband and wife.
We’ve come to think of them as TVD’s extended family as well, our own Joseph Neff writing over a year ago in regard to their debut full-length Genuine Psychic, “it’s not far from the kinda thing the Too Pure label was releasing …a layered, groovy, post-rock sorta deal, and that’s cool… Think Siouxsie, but also Dinah Cancer, a distinction made to underscore an affinity with punk’s pre-hardcore days, when the form was far less rigidly defined.”
But that was last year, and in 2020—mid-pandemic—”Hit Your Town” strikes like a tense and nervy strut down Avenue A with a lightning bolt affixed to your dancing shoes. The accompanying PR cites both Georgio Moroder and Nina Hagan to conjure what the band refers to as Dyscopia or Dystopi-an Disco, but there’s more than the sum of influences at work here.
“This track was written during the riots in Chile and after the last earthquake in Japan, somewhere during November 2019 and January 2020,” Martin elaborates. “We really had no idea to what extent the disaster was in fact gonna ‘hit our town.'”
“Hit Your Town” is available this Friday from the LLL’s own Ilegalia Records—and courtesy of the band when you purchase the track via our special link above, the extended B-side disco mix is your free. How’s that hit ya?
