Kelsey Lu Grew up Jehovah’s Witness and Named Her Second Album So Help Me God
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Kelsey Lu grew up Jehovah’s Witness and named her second album So Help Me God
Seven years is a long time to sit with grief and call the result So Help Me God. Kelsey Lu’s second album arrives on Dirty Hit as a document of personal reconstitution and an object of genuine formal ambition. Baroque chamber pop co-produced with Jack Antonoff, featuring Sampha and Kamasi Washington, it opens with an eight-minute track called “Reaper” that takes its time arriving at whatever it intends to say. When Blood appeared, Lu had already…
Album Review: Kelsey Lu, ‘So Help Me God’
Though Kelsey Lu has kept busy since 2019’s Blood, returning to their musical identity feels like a process of homecoming. After scoring award-winning films, working across galleries, and collaborating with musicians ranging from Beverly Glenn-Copeland to Jamie xx, Lu discovered that going back to songwriting meant having to sit with uncertainty, slowness, and a lack of resolution. “While many things can serve as beautiful guides,” they recently…
Under the soft ambient-art-pop-overface, a dystopian gloom bubbles.When you grow up like Kelsey Lu with parents who are strict Jehovah's Witnesses and start writing your own music at the age of eight, there are two ways: Either you bend to the life that is lived for you or you break out. Lu chose variant two and fled to New York at the age of 18. Music, ...
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