The future never looks or feels like I’d imagined it would when I was young. There are no flying cars (the closest we have are self-driving ones that seem to love to explode), the smart home technology we have scrapes and resells our data and holograms are generally reserved for resurrecting dead musicians at music festivals. I realize I just described technology from The Jetsons, but the fact remains that pretty much all of the structural problems society has always faced still rule the day.
Music is much the same. I’d always imagined the songs of the future would be glittering electronic gems that felt futuristic in some ineffable way. We do have some of that, but music is still ruled by much of what came before. What we also have, though, is fascinating genre-bending and mixing of unique styles that feels at times like the musical equivalent of the geological layering that takes place over millennia.
That messy process produces messy results. Some of the music is amazing and some is just baffling. But it does feel futuristic. And given the messiness of the rest of the future we’re living in, this kind of music ends up feeling much more representative.
Lecx Stacy, “Are We Awake”: Do you like gentle guitar strums? Delicate banjo plucks? Sirenic female vocals? How about bursts of fuzzed out electronic percussion or washy, ethereal synths? If you answered ‘yes,’ to any of these questions, Lecx Stacy’s “Are We Awake,” has at least a little something for you. The mixture is at times chaotic, at others serene, and always engrossing. At least for me.
Like what you hear? Check out Lecx Stacy at Casbah on Wednesday, Sept. 11.
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