NO COVER 10:00pm Listening Party
Crates is a vinyl listening party. Every Thursday at 10 p.m., we’ll unwrap new releases and experience old favorites, played loud over Berlin’s d&b PA. For those seeking beauty and camaraderie.
This week’s selection is So Help Me God, the second album by U.S. singer/cellist Kelsey Lu. It’s grand, graceful, and shadowy.
It has been seven years since Lu released their debut album, Blood. In the meantime, they have scored movies for A24 and Netflix; performed a residency at the Blue Note clubs in New York City and Los Angeles; and been featured on albums by Jamie xx, Blood Orange, and Boys Noize. Let’s find out how the years have shaped them and their avant-pop sound.
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“The album’s guest list is as eclectic as Lu’s activities over the last seven years: pop super-producer Jack Antonoff, jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, British singer-songwriter Sampha and former Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon. But rather than jarring or showy, their appearances are beautifully sublimated.” – Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
