Australian duo Luke & Sarah-Rose are on the verge of releasing their new album and the single “Fuck You” gives you a taste of the way the songwriters are able to turn deep personal pain and frustration into a luminous and quietly cathartic melody that shimmers with an inner light. It sounds like Sarah-Rose is setting the demons that haunt her mind loose upon the water like lantern-motes of the psyche and bidding them goodbye. Rather than a simple resolution this aspect of the song and its flower-like rosette of a chant-like structure suggests an intentional process that draws upon the intuition to guide it. At times in this way it recalls the emotional delicacy and power of Tori Amos because the latter doesn’t dishonor her own life and struggles nor those of her listeners with glib pseudo-wisdom. At others like The Kills without the hard rock but the psychological insight and intensity well in place.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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