EP Review: LUMER - 'Disappearing Act'
LUMER are painting an ever too realistic depiction of a dystopian reality with their highly anticipated debut EP ‘Disappearing Act’.
Hailing from Hull, this four-piece have come a long way since starting the band as a way to kill time, with their post punk tendencies garnering them both national and international recognition. With their particular brand of punk focusing on singling out flaws within our broken society and spitting venom on them coupled with observations that are razor sharp.
Their debut EP certainly doesn’t hold back on this, but what is surprising when listening to ‘Disappearing Act’ is how well LUMER articulate their points on corrupt leaders, social pressures, and our overall existence with a tinge of poetic romance.
Your ears are sprung into action right from the off with the trashing guitar sounds of ‘White Tsar’ and ‘First Is Too Late’. LUMER lead you down an eventual path of downtrodden despair with ‘By Her Teeth’ depicting a tumultuous relationship whilst ‘The Sheets’ is the exploration of full out despair of a broken heart.
By the time you get to the title track ‘Disappearing Act’, you have little hope left and once you’re hit by the sobering tale of lost hopes in a person’s final days, you’re totally emotionally spent.
Though a collection dark tales, ‘Disappearing Act’ is not only beautiful in terms of how it depicts that despair through its lyrical content, it mirrors experiences a lot of us have gone through. It shows how tuned in LUMER are and ‘Disappearing Act’s is only just the start.
Words by Danial Kennedy