We start our journey into ‘Travel Light’ with ‘Supercomputer’, a piece we feel is rather crucial on the tracklist. It’s highly hypnotic, even cathartic; moving at a slow pace, yet with brooding intensity. In it, we get a sense of what Luciferin stands for: their enhanced sense of introspection, their lyrical abstraction, and their unusual take on the alt-rock genre. In fact, ‘Travel Light’ could be considered a conceptual album, weaving in and out of art rock and progressive. That said, we expect the record to relate to the listeners in many different ways.
If ‘Supercomputer’ did truly appeal to us (we are called Mesmerized, after all), its follow-up ‘The Devil I Know’ will capture the complicated minds of the heavy crowd, thanks to its gritty, lamentous distortions and a certain anthemic character. We’d like to praise Luciferin for their bold, creative allure: knowing full well that the niche of this album is rather small, they still went ahead and released a pure, unfiltered mirror of their artistic sensibility. Title track ‘Travel Light’ acts as a sort of resolution point for the whole LP, both from an aural and lyrical standpoint.
It’s here that we fully grapple with Luciferin’s complex songwriting work, mainly dedicated to the exploration of the human mind, and the many ways it relates to society and modernity. Delving deeper into the album, Luciferin explains: “It moves through reflections on memory, personal agency, spiritual doubt, and the strange experience of being a limited ‘user’ inside the vast system of the human mind.”
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