Oh God, I’ve done it again
I’ve turned my demons into friends
I’ve let them run a rampage
Will anybody come to aid?
Los Angeles darkwave artist Luna Lore arrives with her debut EP OUT OF TIME, wearing mascara like war paint and bad decisions like heirloom silver. Produced by close collaborator Dakota Blue, the record pulls goth rock, post-punk, darkwave, alternative, and dreampop into a room with poor ventilation, frayed nerves, and excellent instincts.
The reference points announce themselves without embarrassment: Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Smashing Pumpkins, Molly Nilsson, Nine Inch Nails, Chelsea Wolfe. Lore, however, has enough force of personality to keep the ritual from becoming tribute. The synths carry a church-basement chill; the guitars rise in bruised, blooming layers; the vocals move from close-up vulnerability to theatrical attack, as though confession and accusation have been handed the same microphone.
Take the Bait opens with a punchy backbeat and a vocal presence that suggests Smashing Pumpkins meeting Siouxsie after several sleepless nights and one mutually destructive romance. “I’ll become exactly what you want” lands as the crucial wound, a line that understands self-erasure as seduction, sickness, and survival tactic all at once. Devotion becomes costume, then cage, then contagion.
Sick Joke gives the EP its meanest smile. Somewhere between Sinéad O’Connor and Liz Phair, it turns damage into bitter theatre, the kind where everyone laughs a little too loudly because the alternative involves paperwork, medication, or both.
H3AV3N enters on eerie synths before settling into a bouncy nineties backbeat, brushing against trip-hop and late-century pop while keeping its black-lipstick nerve. “Heaven couldn’t rival all of our love” pushes romance into obsessive excess, where desire starts speaking in stained-glass language and bad judgment wears a halo.
The title track, Out of Time, slows into something heavier and more deliberate, dragging itself forward with a doomed kind of grace. There are traces of Kate Bush and Fever Ray in The Knife’s vocal delivery and quirky pop architecture, but Lore keeps the song close to the body. The lyrics “How can I surrender into your embrace / When all of my fear takes on the shape of cages” give the record its bruised thesis: intimacy as exposure, desire as danger, love as the door you recognize too late.
For a debut, OUT OF TIME arrives with appetite, anxiety, and a fine sense of theatrical ruin. Luna Lore turns private wreckage into public ceremony, lust into liturgy, and heartbreak into something with teeth.
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