Only a few months after their excellent previous album, Alchemical Task, Portland's Lore City return with the ritualistic dark elegance of new single, I Know You Know. The new track introduces the duo's coming fourth full length, Participation Mystique, expected in its entirety on July 23rd, 2021.
Coming on strong with its firmness and edginess in full display, the new track is a bold example of the way the musical unity of Laura Mariposa Williams (vocals, keyboard, guitar) and Eric Angelo Bessel (percussion, keyboard, guitar) uses elements from darkwave, dreampop, post rock and psychedelia, and implements them into the band's own vision, coming up with something that feels rich and at the same time minimal.
Not unlike the especial craftiness through which they have created a triad of distinctive albums in their path thus far, Lore City enter the second decade of their existence with something positively artful and stirring.
Band photo courtesy of Lore City