The Last of Lucy
Moksha


2.5
average

Review

by Robert Garland STAFF
February 18th, 2022 | 25 replies


Release Date: 2022 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Lucy, it’s time to mosh-ka.

Lucy. Lucinda. Lucille. Lucy is a dime a dozen name; a peak name of the late 1800s and again circa 1950. Is this really the last of Lucy? Nay. Lucy is just getting started. Lucy will likely outlast us all. But that’s a pretty left-field name for a death metal band right? No references to fire, death, satanic worship or even the lower intestine (thanks, fat ed’s guide to metal). Needless to say I haven’t come across these jazz-cum-death[core?] metal nerds before the likes of Transcending Obscurity announced Moksha earlier in the year. I mean I was intrigued, mostly because of the quirky name, pink-tinged artwork and the expectation of balls-to-the-walls deathcore while the presser listed some of modern death metal’s more palatable heavyweights in the ‘read if you like’ section (Inferi, Archspire, The Zenith Passage). As such, I pulled up my dacks, adjusted the glasses on the bridge of my nose and leapt right into it.

The album’s title track, which leads the onslaught blasts and snarls with abandon. Where Ashvattha was known for its tendency to avant jazz notes into grinding death metal motifs, “Moksha” is a transparent bludgeoner, meat and bones swung wildly from mechanical arms. “Agni” is similarly straight-forwards; its breakneck speeds enunciating the band’s further departure from weirder genre smashups. That’s fine; but speed seems to be the main ingredient of the day, dropped off the truck in volume. Moksha is a brief thirty minutes overall—but it doesn’t have to be. There are some great ideas here that could be better fleshed out if only these guys took a moment to smell the otherworldly alien luminescent slime. “Aforethought”, the shortest track after the introduction is a hammer of growls, blast beats and modern technical death metal aesthetic and yet the brocore back riffs (those slower ones) of the track just tickle atmospherics, wasted. If The Last Of Lucy really took a moment or two to really think about what they were doing, there’d be more graceful swings like the tail end of “Ego Death” or an expansion of the ominous tones that announce “Ritual Of The Abraxas”.

Unfortunately, Moksha is too strung out by the same ideas to be really impactful in today’s more modern tech death. Those acts mentioned above do provide some bearing for The Last Of Lucy’s soundscapes, but comparatively, Moksha falls much shorter than the expectation; sidestepping wholesome songwriting and replacing it with run of the mill death metal motifs that neither lift or drop the album’s overall quality. Moksha’s latter half runs into much of the same stylistic issues as the songs before it and as such, the tracks are interchangeable and not for the better. To measure a saving grace however, is the record’s overall brevity. Had this album been any longer than thirty minutes in this style the temptation to tune out would’ve massively outweighed the appeal. As such the record could be likened to Schrödinger's cat and is much the banger of a record as it is not. Lucy might outlast this generation and the next. Moksha however, will be forgotten in a matter of hours.




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Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 18th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

released February 18, 2022



https://thelastoflucyband.bandcamp.com/

TheNotrap
Staff Reviewer
February 18th 2022


19009 Comments


I gave it a spin today and wasn't thrilled either.

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 18th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Plenty of other good music to go around.

Pikazilla
February 18th 2022


31198 Comments


I want to 1 this based on the combination of band name and that artwork alone

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I've seen less reasons, especially on this humble site.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2022


62343 Comments


advantage Lucy >>>>

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Math adds up

Lopan
February 19th 2022


113 Comments


I love tech death but this is garbage. Horrible production. Pointless songwriting.

Get Low
February 20th 2022


14553 Comments


Hunab Ku in the similar artists has me interested

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I feel like that might have more to do with the band's earlier albums.

Get Low
February 20th 2022


14553 Comments


word, I'll check those first when I check this band

Pon
Emeritus
February 20th 2022


6098 Comments


Saw the artwork and immediately assumed this was Unique Leader-core. Turns out they're on the same label as Diskord, might check 🤔

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Not on the same par level as Diskord. The new Godless Truth on the same label has more promise though.

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2022


5664 Comments


amazing summary and def how i read the album title at first lol

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Glad I'm not the only one haha.

Pon
Emeritus
February 20th 2022


6098 Comments


Dunno if I can trust your assessment, the review suggests you just had your heart broken by someone named Lucy

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

But I have a 5/5 BB King review. That can't be it.

Pon
Emeritus
February 20th 2022


6098 Comments


You give me too much credit if you think I'ma trudge through you soon to be 420 reviews

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I will forever over-expect when it comes to you dear Jac. Just like that Aeviterne album you haven't dibbed yet.

Egarran
February 20th 2022


35443 Comments


I am also here for the pun.



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