{"id":920311,"date":"2026-10-08T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920311\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:24:09","slug":"lucy-bedroque-c-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920311\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Bedroque: c Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

First: the vocals. Lucy\u2019s always been a hard vocalist to classify, intensely emotive but largely separate from the monster-growl<\/a> arms race. They can rap double-time pyrotechnics, stack gorgeous falsetto harmonies, or get gummy rhythmic cadences out of their presets, and they often vary their mixing to obscure the connection with a central performer that you\u2019d expect from even the haziest or most abstract rap music. The way Lucy inhabits the beat on the UNMUSIQUE-reminiscent \u201cSAFESPACE\u201d\u2014as just one cut-up electronic layer seething out of the machine\u2014makes them come off more like a hologram or a vocaloid. On \u201cALL SPEAKERS GO TO HEAVEN,\u201d they attempt metalcore screaming, probably inspired by their longtime idols,<\/a> the Japanese visual kei band Dir En Grey<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t quite land, but it\u2019s a useful point of reference for the way their voice can shift between forward-facing songwriting and a more textural serrated edge. There are songs where Lucy plays the traditional role of a rapper forcing chanted momentum out in front of the beat, like \u201cC SECTION\u201d or \u201cSPEED DEMON,\u201d which incites you to break traffic laws if you play it in the car. c still boasts, next to Lucy\u2019s late influence Luci4,<\/a> some of the weirder vocal production ever distributed through a major label.<\/p>\n

The production on c is eclectic and overwhelming, as Lucy and producers like ginseng, kuru<\/a>, and ivvys survey some of the biggest underground styles of the moment and mix them in the red until they gleam. c is sequenced to constantly swerve between staggering moments; every song has some impressive drop, or ASMR sound-design trick, that shocks the senses. Lucy\u2019s constant sense of invention sometimes falters under the album\u2019s new, megawatt spotlight, lacking the enticing mystery that gives their best music its power. \u201cOROCHIMARU,\u201d for example, is energized enough\u2014Lucy\u2019s inflections are cool, and there\u2019s some DMV-style drum clatter\u2014but also predictable, in a way that brings out weaknesses in the writing and makes the crowded mixdown feel aimless. Some of the best tracks are self-produced ones like \u201cERASE YOUR SOCIAL,\u201d which bear the jagged bounce (much of this album would benefit from a more foregrounded sense of groove), and knack for creating picturesque atmospheres out of the castaway textures of pandemic SoundCloud, that Lucy developed on SISTERHOOD. Lucy applies the perfect level of distortion to each element of \u201cTHE 9TH CIRCLE,\u201d as their sprightly melodies produce clouds of frosty breath that linger in their wake. Like every Lucy project, there are also swing-for-the-fences samples, of the kinds of old, viral songs that create communities of nostalgic yearners in their YouTube comments. \u201cSTONE IN FOCUS\u201d makes an extraverted banger out of a meditative SAW II<\/a> album cut,<\/a> officially cleared by Richard D. James<\/a> himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First: the vocals. Lucy\u2019s always been a hard vocalist to classify, intensely emotive but largely separate from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12327,64,63,134,136,1672],"class_list":["post-920311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}