from the EP Scar, 4AD Records, 1989Lush’s glittering experiments in melody and sound were never short of awe-inspiring, volatile & capricious in all the right ways, inviting you deep within their forest of densely layered guitars and airy vocals, leaving your head spinning from all the unexpected twists and turns in harmony which they take along the way---it’s not easy to fuck with melody and time signatures in this manner, gently bobbing between 3/4 and 3/5 time while deconstructing the minor chords just enough to keep things feeling mildly inebriated. Although the sonic atmosphere feels slightly sinister, guitarist & vocalist Emma Anderson’s lyrics are a happy psychedelic mess, “…I need purple veins and scenic greens, they can make me soar and touch extremes; I just fell down from whitest skies, and now I start to realize, and all the colors talk to me…now you're times nearly through, colors are dripping down red and blue; I'm standing in the middle of a great glass ball, I'm told that I've nothing but I'm having it all…”
