Funny Business by Mike Luz

Life’s a joke in Mike Luz’s Funny Business. Which is not to say it isn’t deadly serious too. Such is the wry, laugh-cry-cringe tone of Luz’s latest album, a clean and focused collection of 11 songs for our distracted and forever plastics-infused times. Luz has a golden ear for melody and a knack for conjuring the classics, but he fights the temptation of churning out another folk rock replica—because you’ve heard that one before. What he’s after is far more interesting and complicated. How do we live when, as one song observes, “AI in time / will suck / all of us dry?” Death and technology roam these songs’ halls. But so does love, and so does yearning—an earnest desire to live better that is, if not free of, in defiance of the algorithmic self-help vortexes of the internet. Luz sings, “I’m looking for a way to see beyond all things,” and you’ll feel like he’s almost caught it. But the joke is that life’s over too soon, that’s how life goes. “LOL JK OMG,” Luz sings, and he’s serious. ~ Marc Paltrineri

Tracklist

1.	The Waiting Game	4:21

2.	Mantra	4:09

3.	Fool's Gold	4:10

4.	Dead Stop	3:25

5.	You	4:40

6.	No Man	4:07

7.	The Point	5:04

8.	Bad Weather	4:42

9.	Pursuit of Armor	3:53

10.	The Wilderness Refuses	4:18

11.	When I Go	5:27

Credits

released December 16, 2024

Written, Performed, & Recorded by Mike Luz

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