Lucky Iris have this knack of combining classy alt-pop with words that address personal experiences and things that are happening or being felt now. And sometimes these are not happy and bright – if you get what I’m saving. And yet somehow they make this work.
The duo explain that ‘universal’, the second single released from their upcoming EP, “is about watching the world fall apart and wondering whether you’re the only one who can see it. Am I an empath? Or am I just human? Am I overly emotional? Or is everyone else feeling the same way? Is everyone just far better at hiding it?
“The issue is it’s really hard to know the answer. So instead I’ll take an online quiz to work out if I’m… going insane… decided by which kitchen and desert choice I think is most “me”. But, maybe it really is just me. I hope no one else feels this way. I hope it’s just me. Because it doesn’t feel good. But I have a feeling it might not be.”
This isn’t the happiest song topic is it? You certainly wouldn’t imagine that this would feature in an electro alt-pop track. So think again, people. The duo have done it brilliantly. They’ve slowed it down and added some distinctly ominous and on the edge of off-kilter 80s’ synthpop sounds under that sweet vocal of Maeve’s. It’s pop genius I tell you. And in the same way as Heaven 17’s ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’ and ‘The Height Of The Fighting’ we can dance while the world falls apart. What this proves is that brilliant pop can address serious things as well as the next musical genre. All it takes is a pop artist with the skill to do it.
‘universal’ is yet another fabulous.release from Lucky Iris. The very epitome of classy contemporary intelligent pop Why Lucky Iris aren’t huge right now is a mystery to me.
