st. lucia

Matter branches out from happy tropical pop

At first listen, St. Lucia seems like a band trying to recapture the synth-pop stylings of the ’80s. But after about 10 seconds, this proves to be anything but accurate. This is how Jean-Philip Grobler — the creative force behind the band — wants it to be. While Grobler admits the group has 1980s synthpop influence, this genre is not his main inspiration from the period. “[It] was a decade where there was this feeling of there being no rules on the kinds of music you could make,” he told The Peak. “And it doesn’t feel like authors were necessarily…

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