Lusine - Melting Days The Stooges first because it does things

first because it does things with classical music that are rarely done

she evokes old maritime folk tales of fishermen lured into the darkness by the sea’s siren call

and their individual recording and performance credits read as a veritable who's who

I knew there were higher things on this earth

boundary-pushing storytelling

Lusine - Melting Days The Stooges first because it does thingsRetracing two decades with Seattles Jeff McIlwain, aka Lusine, reveals one of contemporary electronic and experimental musics most enduring producers, understatedly consistent yet endlessly curious. His expansive catalog balances melodic structure with textural refinement, drifting into techno, avant pop, and ambient lanes while never squarely in any one of them. Following 2023s Long Light, among his most collaborative, song forward albums to date,