With her fourth LP, Mammoth, Lydia Luce navigates lushly produced tracks, offering crystalline vocals and lyrics that laud the positives of life: nurturing love and awe in the face of beauty. Dreamier than Luce’s previous work, the set captures the singer-songwriter as she revels in stillness, invoking an expansive sense of peace.
Throughout the album, Luce speaks to the way simply being with another person without talking can be intimate. On “Quiet,” she suggests, “We don’t have to fill the space between.” Her vocal is dabbed with reverb and accented by ethereal strings and synth sounds, recalling the other worldliness of Cassandra Jenkins’ An Overview on Phenomenal Nature or Karima Walker’s Waking the Dreaming Body.
