LUMINEERS - Cleopatra LP doom NY’s Radical Empathy Records

NY’s Radical Empathy Records

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what Cave attempted with Kicking Against the Pricks (1986) was not all that different than what any one of us do when we hit a karaoke bar: Push ourselves out of our comfort zones and have a bit of a laugh while doing so-- certainly

LUMINEERS - Cleopatra LP doom NY’s Radical Empathy RecordsWith 11 tracks and clocking in at a brisk 35 minutes, Cleopatra feels slight. Every song is less than four minutes, although compared to The Lumineers first album, the purpose is much more serious. Theres nothing as silly as the paranoid Submarines or as danceable as Classy Girls. The biggest difference, however is the percussion. The main ingredients that turned The Lumineers from indie folk into folk pop were the toe tapping claps, smacks, and