Luke Hunter's debut album,
Dizzying Heights, is a night-time excursion into neo-psychedelia, post-rock, and ambient sound-scapes, revolving around sustained, echo-laiden guitar, flowing about rhythms - coupled with abstract guitar structures, and those darkest of pop hooks intertwining with bass and keyboards.
All is woven together for you to enjoy as pure improvisational ingenuity, caught on tape...
Dizzying Heights as a written work wasn't written at all, so much as conceptualized in over fifteen different sessions by myself, with help from a few good friends. On the whole, the goal was to create something solely on a whim - experimental music in the sense that it is born while undergoing the recording process, not just a product of sitting down with the standard verse-chorus-verse formula in mind.
Seeing as how I feel this old formulaic standard has gone so far as to eat itself in recent years, and leave little creative input to the artist, it is fitting that this recording is an antithesis of what music once was, a culmination of feeling.
This music is raw feeling - pure emotion on tape, caught in the act of creation (and destruction), instead of just being built up. The music can retain grit and personality.
Forgive me if the first-person singular is used overwhelmingly in the lyrics, but this in itself is a testament to the authenticity of words being crooned. Each song is a definitive view of what was in my skull at the time, and these songs should hopefully instill new sensations in you, the listener.
In due time, the goal of music should not be some esthetic appeal, catchy tune, or fashion, but rather a transmission of feeling. And if music can do this, then it is good music by any standard.
-L.H.
