The Last Summer for Lucy - Congratulations to the Millionth Visitor at the South Pole (2021)

This is some fine comeback here. I posted about the German band The Last Summer for Lucy three years ago when there was nothing about them across the Internet and now, when there's the second album available, there's... still no info. But it means I enjoyed Congratulations to the Millionth Visitor at the South Pole even more, thanks to the pinch of mystery around the project.

Their music evolved from what I remember and it got better quality production-wise. It's still filled with interesting concepts for instrumental music compositions and although guitars are what drives the music here, it's not always the case. The guitar soundscapes are sometimes broken with quite eclectic elements like the heavy synths and then the choir-like samples in Theme for Sale or the instrumental ambient-like fragments of We Come in Peace or delicate electronic sounds all over the place.

The album's title refers to the cold and (usually) empty landscapes of the north (and so does the opening track's one) and there's some of the heavy atmosphere of the northern desolation present here (perhaps the best one in the massive finish in Sleep If You Can), although the album is way too eclectic to stay in one place for a longer time. Good stuff.

Congratulations to the Millionth Visitor at the South Pole costs whatever you want to pay.

The Last Summer For Lucy - The Last Summer for Lucy (2018) EN

Check: Theme for Sale

Country: Germany

Genre: eclectic post-rock

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