Luc Stargazer – The Commet Tail (EP – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Rock.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Dresden (Germany) formation Luc Stargazer strikes back with a new work. The EP seems more like a mini-album featuring thirteen songs.
Content: The band moved back to their early EP “Jupiter” reworking the original version into a “2021 Version”. You’ll also discover the original edit plus remixes by James Knights, Seasurfer, Martin Acid and Golden Apes. The song remains a pure Dark-Wave/Post-Punk cut carried by impressive guitar playing reminding me of The Chameleons. You’ll also discover a remix of “Lucy’s Eyes” -a song from the last album “Lunascape” (2017) plus 3 new songs and a few instrumental breaks;
+ + + : Luc Stargazer is a band which deserves more attention and recognition for their well-crafted Dark-Wave music which is carried by solid guitar parts. There also is Dark-Rock touch on top of the production which makes the particularity of the band. Among the new songs I recommend the powerful “Unperfect”.
– – – : The remixes of “Jupiter” are cool but don’t really add anything extra.
Conclusion: Luc Stargazer stands for 80s nostalgia with a personal touch on top.
Best songs: “Unperfect”, “Jupiter – 2021 Version”, “Jupiter – 2011 Version”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/lucstargazerband
Label: www.reptile-music.net / www.facebook.com/reptile.music
Reptile Music issued the EP on 4 February 2022 as a digital release. The label spells the title “The Comet Tail”. The thirteen tracks are “Jupiter (2021 Version)”, “Jupiter (James Knights Remix)”, “Intersphere”, “Tulips In Rain”, “Jupiter (Seasurfer Remix)”, “Retipuj”, “Your World Is Mine”, “Unperfect”, “Jupiter (Martin Acid Remix)”, “Cosmicsphere”, “Lucy’s Eyes (MASH Remix)”, “Jupiter (Golden Apes Remix)” and “Jupiter (2011 Version)”.
The line-up on the release is Lazy Schulz on vocals, guitars, keyboards and programming, Rico Meerheim on guitars, Falk Brederlow on bass and Michael Bader on drums. Meerheim and Schulz produced, recorded and mixed the new material at Galaxy Studios Dresden, where Meerheim also mastered every track. The remixers are James Knights, Dirk Knight with Seasurfer, Martin Acid, and Peer Lebrecht for the Golden Apes version. The “Lucy’s Eyes” remix comes from Ashley Dayour and Martin Acid of Whispers In The Shadow. Nico Träger handled the artwork.
Listen to “The Comet Tail”:
About Luc Stargazer
Luc Stargazer is a quartet from Dresden, Germany, working in post-punk, dark wave and cold wave. The band is Lazy Schulz on vocals, guitars, keyboards and programming, Rico Meerheim on guitars, Falk Brederlow on bass and Michael Bader on drums.
The recorded discography starts with “Evolution” in 2011 and continues with the album “Lunascape” in 2017. The single “Dramaboy And Traumaqueen” followed on Reptile Music in 2018. “Jupiter” was first recorded in 2011 with an earlier line-up of Lazy Schulz, Juliane Richter on bass, Uwe Oppelt on guitars and Stefan Pötzsch on drums, at Fastlane Studios Dresden; that take closes the new EP as the “2011 Version”.
Outside their own releases the band contributed a remix to the Sjöblom EP ‘A victory of love’ in 2019. “The Comet Tail” is their first release since that appearance and their second title for Reptile Music.
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