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Orzolek sang at the Oscars, and she scored a co-write on a Beyonce song.
(Lemonades Hold Uprepurposes the Maps refrainof They dont love you like I love you.)
To hear hertell it, Karen Os latest musical adventure began over a decade ago with a drunk dial.
The success ofLux Primahinges on how well the two musicians are able to make these two ends meet.
Lux Primas prerelease singles Woman and Lux Prima couldve come from two different albums.
The latters tools are space, intriguing synth textures, and abstract imagery.
Like Woman, theres a clever inversion happening.
Elsewhere,Lux Primastops short of the straight-up pop moves of Woman and the title tracks prog-rock gestures.
The choice makes sense.
Drown and Ministry mix moody folk and offbeat arrangements as deftly asSea Changeera Beck gems like Paper Tiger.
Karen O has been making bare-bones deconstructions of punk-rock tunes for almost 20 years.
The success of those kinds of songs in this batch is a function of her mastery of the form.
What if they followed the latent country-rock vibes of Drown to their logical conclusion?
What if there were more gospel choirs?
That also means it is perhaps best received as background music.
