INTRODUCING: Cor De Lux

Hailing from Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, COR DE LUX merge alternative, dreampop, shoegaze, and post-punk stylings to create a hazy and beautiful melding of sounds. The band’s new album, Year Of The Horse, their first on new label Ipecac Recordings, is a perfect representation of these sonic vibes, and makes for a great soundtrack to the dying embers of summer days. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Tim Lusk and guitarist/vocalist Dawn Moraga to get the lowdown on Year Of The Horse.

We get started by going back to the very beginning and hear how COR DE LUX started as band with Dawn explaining. “Tim owns a computer repair/cell phone store, and me and my friend went in there because she broke her phone, and he was repairing the screen, and we just started talking to him about music, and he mentioned SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE and FUGAZI. He had a little recording studio set up, we started playing, just jamming one night, and realised that we had really good chemistry and it was like, ‘damn, let’s start a band’!”

Dawn continues, “we were thinking about a drummer, which was the hardest thing to find, as we live in a small beach town in North Carolina, that’s ...