New Noise Magazine (France) Review
The glorious land of cheese and wine continues to send the love to Luder. France’s New Noise Magazine favorably reviewed Luder’s Sonoluminescence for their Novemeber/December, 2010 year-end round-up. An observation…although likely the reviewers’ assumption based on our label, it’s funny that the album gets placed in the “Stoner Rock” category so often. This band doesn’t even smoke. Ha!
Since we don’t expect most of you to read the French, here is the translation with some of its Frenchness intact:
<<< Luder is a strange creature born from the ashes of the obscure band Slot. Following the death of the band leader, Billy Rivkin, Scott Hamilton (boss of the label Small Stone), decided to honor him by releasing several lost Slot recordings; but he didn't stop there. He then gathered the bassist and drummer of the original group, Sue Lott and Eddie Alterman, then added Phil Dürr (Big Chief, Giant Brain, Five Horse Johnson) to play lead guitar with Scott on backing—thinking it would take two guitarists to achieve the result Billy Rivkin achieved by himself—in a new incarnation of Slot around the time of special concerts at the SXSW festival in 2007 or even in their hometown of Detroit. Once the group was well established, its members decided that it would be fun to continue to make music together under another name. For lack of time, Alterman had to leave the group and was replaced by Eric Miller Five Horse Johnson. Slot 2.0 was then renamed Luder (which means, roughly, "petit etron, little shit/brat" in German). The band's first album, Sonoluminescence, marries rhythmic swaying, power stoner rock, shoe-gazing walls of sound and female vocals, alternately ironic or evanescent—and one realizes that few groups of its kind have a female singer. One also feels a fierce sense of humor and sensuality bubbling under titles such as "Cold Hands, Warm Pants", "Hot, Girl-on-Girl, Vampire Action" (a disc which contains such a song can only be warmly recommended), or "Soledad y Onanismo", which actually go quite well together. In short, a great surprise which is enriched by very diverse influences claimed by the various members of the group: Latin music to stoner rock, pop and psychedelic rock. So thank you to our dear rédac'chef for having slipped this into the shipment of traditional CDs. It has proved to be a pleasant discovery. >>>
