LLORA by LLORA

LLORA’s self-titled LP is flush with emotion. The Texas-based artist makes their SYNTHICIDE debut with nine songs that exude a spectrum of feeling: from heartbreak to mania, longing and sorrow. The album bleeds out to the genre edges of EBM and wave characteristics but is dreamlike pop at its very core—"LLORA" is the artist at their most vulnerable, a fantastical state translated into dance music.

Side A begins with “International Discotheque,” a modern-day extension of Giorgio Moroder’s dreamy synthesized reverie with guest vocals by SRSQ. The track is Italo-disco gone to heaven. “Forward” is danceable pop coated in a hard shell of darkness while “Let Me In” insists on movement with its flirtation of an EBM groove. Peculiar and slightly harsh, “Clock” feels like a lost track from Depeche Mode’s "Some Great Reward" era as LLORA sings “don’t stop, don’t turn off the clock / don’t feed yourself that appetite / don’t wanna feel nothing at all.”

On Side B, “Sunday” is a powerhouse of a song that ebbs and flows from minimal drum machine sounds into a massive chorus complete with cathedral bells. “Syncophant” is grimy with an extreme attitude which is in contrast to “Good Time”’s sensuality with LLORA’s sleek vocals. Equal parts hysteric and lovable, the quirkiness of “Bad Behavior” grows in tension as the song progresses to the precipice of its demise. The epic ending to the "LLORA" saga is “Glove,” a track that bids adieu to the last fragments of darkness as dawn approaches—both hopeful and beautiful in its inevitability.

SYNTHICIDE is a party and label that has nurtured dark synth-driven music in Brooklyn, New York since January 2014.

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