{"id":16446,"date":"2025-10-06T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16446"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:31:14","slug":"los-angeles-electrowave-duo-luckyandlove-shares-secret-is-out-from-darkness-to-the-stark-glow-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16446","title":{"rendered":"“PREMIERE:\u00a0‘Secret Is Out’ by LUCKYANDLOVE brings an uptempo sci-fi electro love story”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the home-stretch to their third album ‘Humaura’<\/strong><\/a>, electro-wave outfit LUCKYANDLOVE<\/strong><\/a> share the wonderfully kinetic ‘Secret Is Out’<\/strong><\/a>, an anguished theme of sacrifice, where the protagonist moves from the safety of darkness into the stark glow of discovery, the song’s swirling sonic textures leading to the next high-speed beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LUCKYANDLOVE is the raw sonic experiment of Los Angeles-based artists Loren Luck <\/strong>and April Love<\/strong>, whose music transcends genres. Their live analog synth beats, Moog instrumentation and beautiful, harmonic vocals trigger an immediate download of fuzzy sunset synthgaze, blue-black neon darkwave, and tigerprint electro punk. With this new single, the duo weaves in and out of the shadows in a back-and-forth clandestine love affair with attention-grabbing percussion and pitch-bending strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Secret Is Out’ generates anticipation, the bass rising and beats prowling around before exploding into stabbing synths and overdriven analog-filter sweeps. With enchanting wistful vocals, the bell tones build to climatic sawtooth screams. Its driving pulse of drum, bass and growling synthesizers create a thrilling sense of flight\u2014a sonic getaway. At its core, the song tells a doomed romance: a bloodsucker’s devotion that must be abandoned upon exposure to the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is a story is of a love-stricken vampire, where love is tragic when caught in the sun; out of the shadows into the black light\u2014 love just must be withdrawn once the vampire\u2019s secret is out. The track is chopped full of drum and bass, growling synths with time to hear oscillating swirls take you around till the next groove of the motorcycle escape,” says April Love<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis track laments in a kind of romantic science-fiction story painting – a picture of a break up and make up cycle of two people, a break up and make up cycle of a scene, ultimately leading to their exodus from a futuristic city.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loren Luck<\/strong> adds, \u201cIt’s freeing to let those secrets out and get honest with ourselves. No matter who we are, it\u2019s okay to be ourselves. Mixed feelings about how to handle the situation. It\u2019s just a story of how to escape from the lies. The song has a lot of parts and break downs. Lying hurts people. I like the growling synth that comes up from the low end. This is our fastest song with some calming moments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released by SRD – Southern Record Distributors<\/strong><\/a>, ‘Humaura’<\/strong><\/a> (pronounced “hu \u2022 mau \u2022 ra” and defined by the duo as the atmosphere that emanates from the feelings of the human spirit void of technological control), follows their latest sultry offering ‘Lonely At Night’<\/strong><\/a> with its melancholic dream state of layered sounds, and the atomic anthem <\/strong>\u2018I Am Human\u2019<\/strong><\/a>, fused together with pulsating molten kicks, fuzzed-out analog synths and sensual vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This album was recorded, mixed and mastered for digital release by Grammy award-winning engineer Be Hussey<\/a> (Modern English, Swervedriver, The Church, Alcest, Twin Tribes, Boy Harsher, Luna, Kim Deal)<\/strong> <\/strong>at Balboa Studio<\/strong> <\/a>and Catwater<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>for the digital music, and mastered for vinyl and lathe cut by Grammy-nominated engineer Nicholas Townsend<\/strong><\/a> (Cheap Trick, Weezer, Garbage, Dr. Dre, 2Pac, Grimes, Iron Maiden)<\/strong> at Townsend Mastering<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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