Blog: Quick Before It Melts

The buoyant and spirited title track to The Luyas ' Too Beautiful To Work opens their sophomore disc with a lot of promise.  Its quirky rhythm and melodies, the textured arrangement, all come together to form a very beguiling proposition.  The rest of the album isn't as easy to love right off the bat.  Take the second song, "Worth Mentioning" for example.  Here, the textures get rough and ragged, shredding the song's finer points into a pulpy mess by the end of it's 3:48.  It's the Freddy Kreuger to the album opener's Fred [...]

• The Luyas - Too Beautiful To Work