Last Friday, December 3, Lucas & The Woods released “El perfume de tu amor”, a track that, like “Laberintos” and “Eléctrico”, will be part of what will be Propaganda, their next album. Produced by Lucas & The Woods and mixed by Chris Zane (collaborator of Jack Antonoff, Passion Pit, Friendly Fires and Mumford & Sons, among others), the song is accompanied by a video clip whose direction was in charge of Niko Sedano and that shows vividly what the group wants to have with the lyrics. To know more about the premiere and facing the show that is coming this Friday, December 10 at the Usina del Arte (tickets available by clicking here), from Filo.news we talked with Lucas, who told us all about what happened this year and what is coming in the near future.
Well, yes, there are personal references. It’s exaggerated, but it talks a little bit about the idealization of rockstar life. There is a bit of an imaginary about “sticking” it and that when you hear your song for the first time on the radio your life will change; and the truth is that it is a great emotion, but the next day you have to go pay the gas bill just like last month. We once traveled to Las Vegas nominated for the Grammys, but the next day of returning we had to go to laburar.
We have it very incorporated and it comes naturally to us. We are very influenced by the movies of the 80s, the typical high school comedies were very formative in our audiovisual language. Even if we try to get away from that, we feel comfortable there. In this case it is the story of a somewhat defeated rocker who still lives with his old men and his little brothers and wakes up with a hangover. And every day they seem to repeat themselves in an infinite loop. The film The Commitments, from the early 90s, handled that line between rock and family very well and was a good inspiration.
This album is a little more “genre” album. While in Pop Culture we were interested in exploring different sounds in each song, for Propaganda we felt the need to make a more played album with a more homogeneous sound. There are fewer sintes and the songs were recorded with guitar, bass and bata playing at the same time. But the thread is very clear through the disc. We haven’t finished recording it yet, so surprises may appear yet.
It’s going to be very good because after a long time (pandemic in between) we start playing again with some continuity, (we come from doing Niceto and Rosario) so, added to the rehearsal, you start to grab rhythm and the show begins to improve date after date. This is a big show, the auditorium is imposing. The lighting is going to be set sail and we are going to film it, the first show filmed entirely (except for one that we did by streaming).
2021 and then what happened in 2020 was a year of rediscovering ourselves, as artists, as people, as individuals and as a group. To think about what we wanted to do, what place we occupied. The songs that came out this year are a product of those questions. So in 2022 we’re going to keep looking for these answers, and in between, playing a lot which is where our truth is as a band.
