The Luyas News and Photos

Julian Lynch and The Luyas going on co-headlining, collaborative tour, including Northside Fest show (dates)

Thu, April 25 2013 2:06pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

Experimental folk artist Julian Lynch released his pretty and strange new album, Lines , digitally last month and it gets its vinyl release via Underwater Peoples next week (4/30).

The Luyas' 'Animator' Isn't Indie Pop: New Album is 'Not a Dance Party'

Thu, November 15 2012 7:05pm - Source: Spinner

The Montreal band's frontwoman Jessie Stein just doesn't feel like her band belongs there.

The Luyas - Animator

Sun, November 04 2012 8:37pm - Source: the torture garden

Hallelujah, hello Luyas, I see you have a new album.

What is and isn't going on Saturday

Sat, November 03 2012 6:15pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

Power is back to most of Manhattan following four days of blackout in half the borough, with ConEd promising to have everywhere in the city back on by tonight and things are starting to get back to normal, though the Subways aren't quite there yet -- though the 6 line is up and running.

The Luyas: Animator

Fri, October 26 2012 5:14am - Source: Pitchfork Media

That description could just as well extend to the whole album.

The Importance of Staying Fascinated: Best Fit meets The Luyas

Thu, October 25 2012 2:01pm - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Last week saw the release of The Luyas third album, Animator , an album which finds the band reconfigured, taking their next step of development and crafting what frontwoman Jessie Stein terms "a weird, psychedelic, desperate plea to the universe to make something impossible possible."

Album Review: The Luyas – Animator

Fri, October 19 2012 12:04pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

If you've seen The Luyas live in the past few years, it's likely you'd remember it.

Album Of The Week: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

Tue, October 16 2012 8:15pm - Source: Stereogum

"Mladic" and "We Drift Like Worried Fire," the two 20-minute slabs of epicness that make up the meat of Godspeed You!

The quiet way

Tue, October 16 2012 11:21am - Source: Quick Before It Melts

Anyone who denies the fact is living in a fantasy world, or the Sea Org. The problem is we never know when it's going to happen, and it's this lack of information that leads us to spend the majority of our days not contemplating or anticipating our imminent death (terminal illnesses not withstanding).

The Luyas - Animator

Wed, October 10 2012 7:11am - Source: The Four Oh Five

When The Luyas stepped into their Montreal studio with the aim of recording some drum beats to start writing songs for a new album on a cold February morning their plans were soon changed when they received a phone call explaining that one of their very close friends had passed away.

MME STARDUST

Mon, September 24 2012 4:26pm - Source: Said the Gramophone

The Luyas find Lady Stardust in a very different club.

Fifty fifty

Thu, August 02 2012 11:18am - Source: Quick Before It Melts

I was a little lukewarm with The Luyas after hearing their last LP, Too Beautiful To Work , even though I was very much enamoured with the album's lead single, "Tiny Head".

The Luyas: "Moodslayer" (Video)

Fri, January 27 2012 7:01pm - Source: Prefix Magazine

The Jessie Stein-fronted, Montreal-based foursome The Luyas released a dizzying video for its song "Moodslayer," which was apparently "written by compiling the anxieties and venerations of a close friend as they dealt with their first schizophrenic hallucinations."

Oh! Canada 2011: A vintage year for Canadian music

Mon, January 02 2012 10:07am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

It's been a pretty great year all told for Canadian music – so many great records and performances, it is hard to recount them all in such a small space.