Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing – Prologue featuring demos, alternative versions and rare tracks. LUH (which stands for Lost Under Heaven) is Ellery Roberts and Ebony Hoorn. Over the past two years, they have been releasing music, art, photography, film and manifestos into the world, including 2014’s Unites video and the expansive Lost Under Heaven music and artwork package at the end of last year. Ellery’s name might be familiar as the frontman of WU LYF, whose raw and primal voice helped create a sound that shaped a new model for the untamed fury of youth. Ebony is an audio-visual artist based in Amsterdam, where the pair now live, and co-directed the new video with Florian Joahn. Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing is the pair’s debut album and was produced by The Haxan Cloak (known for his own genre-bending experimental compositions in 2015 on the remote island of Osea.
Following the flame-out of his beloved, volatile band WU LYF, Ellery James Roberts teams with girlfriend Ebony Hoorn on his debut album produced by the Haxan Cloak (Bobby Krlic). Somehow the best elements of both Roberts’ and Krlic’s previous work find their way to the surface.
It’s possible to hear the album as a convoluted display of too many ideas, but the forward-thinking of presenting rock vocals and song structures with influences that draw on contemporary hip-hop, EDM, and pop makes LUH one of the most important releases of the year. It’s a record that lyrically and sonically reflects our times, entering a dialogue across genres.
The Fat Angel Sings 