VIEW EVENT INFORMATION: The Lumineers
The Lumineers - Angela
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Status: Available Now!
Type: Music Video
Date: Tuesday 13 September 2016, 12:00 AM
Media: YouTube

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About the person The Lumineers:
Art: Music
Genres: Americana, Folk, Indie, Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Pop Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Country-Folk, Country Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Alternative Rock, Alternative Pop Rock, Alternative Indie Rock, Alternative Folk, Pop
Notable Organizations: YouTube
The Lumineers were never entirely the smiley, foot-stomping folkies they seemed to be on “Ho Hey,” their inescapable Top 10 hit in 2012. Four years later on their second album, “Cleopatra,” they put their serious intentions upfront. The mood is more existential, and the lyrics are often more oblique; some songs are named after Shakespearean women, like “Ophelia” and “Cleopatra.” Wesley Schultz’s guitar is almost always electric rather than acoustic, with the amplification opening hollow places rather than harnessing power; it’s joined in bare-bones arrangements by Jeremiah Fraites, on piano and simplistic drums, and Neyla Pekarek, on cello. The comradeship of the first album’s backup vocals has all but disappeared. Home and distance, longing and mortality are the polarities in the lyrics. The playful college-bar flirtations of the debut album are a distant memory. Instead, the songs lament separations, question their own wanderlust and, at times, envision death as a refuge. “Cleopatra” is an album by a band that has toured arenas, but it’s more weary and disillusioned than triumphal. “Did you hear the notes, all those static codes/In the radio abyss,” Mr. Schultz sings in “Angela.”
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