Lux
Courageous
Reasons
That Keep The Ground Near (2005, Triple
Crown)
It’s
a safe prediction that initial listens to Reasons That Keep
the Ground Near are likely to conjure up knee-jerk comparisons
to Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, and for those who have their
ears a little closer to the ground, The Straylight Run. If that’s
all the tri-state area’s Lux Courageous had to offer I might
as well put the kibosh on this review right here, but fortunately
for them and you dear reader, I’m going to flesh out this
paragraph more extensively. Besides how just plain gratifying the
majority of this album is, it’s a real scarcity these days
to find a band like Lux Courageous who bypass so many of the pedantic
pitfalls of literally hundreds of their contemporaries. There is
inarguably that oft-fabled 'emo' subtext here, but Lux largely de-emphasize
much of that forlorn babble in lieu of soaring harmonies and a heightened
songwriting aptitude, which in tandem make Reasons the
keeper that it is.
-Neal
Agneta 9/21/05
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