Following their role in the celebrated outfit Wax Machine, Lau is the sophomore offering from São Paulo-born musician Lau Ro. An enduring cycle of radiance, the windswept echoes of seminal Brazilian records like Clube da Esquina ripple through the record; a collage as sunny as it is meditative. Like a therapeutic nature walk, the instrumental numbers mixed into the fray offer a cinematic counterpunch, a spry invitation not to overlook the subtleties amidst the bolstering psych-pop haze.
Category: Wax Machine
Wax Machine :: The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On
With Lau Ro’s debut solo LP arriving next month, we revisit Wax Machine’s 2023 album, a useful point of reference for the Brighton musician’s forthcoming work. Prior to stepping out under his own name, Ro was already pulling together a wide range of influences into something distinctly his own. Consider this a preview of the road ahead.
Wax Machine :: Hermit’s Grove
Over the course of its first side, Hermit’s Grove answers the question of what a collaboration of Pharoah Sanders, Ian Carr, and Caetano Veloso would sound like. By the time you reach this conclusion, the group launches into a stoney rendition of Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes’s “Canto de Iemanja.”