18 January 2012

Luksus "Repertoire" (1998)

Repertoire
[debut]
release date: Mar. 10, 1998
format: cd (LIDOCD12)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,48]
producer: Tue Madsen & Mikael Simpson
label: Lidocaine Records - nationality: Denmark


Full-length studio debut by Luksus is like the '97 ep produced by Madsen and Simpson. The song "El Dorado" also appears on the ep but here it's included in a new arrangement and apart from that the album comes with ten new songs.
Compared to the ep, Repertoire still echoes especially Lush, Sundays, and The Smiths, but also at times here: The Cranberries, although, everything is held in a stronger original tone of their own when comparing to the ep.
Repertoire is a fine debut, which gave promises of more ahead but alas it also became the band's first and only full-length album as the band decided to part ways in 2001. Both Mikael Simpson and Lise Westzynthius solo-debuted in 2002.