Santa Lucia, a weird, brilliant Eighties metal band formed by five Finnish teens, returns on the year's coolest reissue find
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, included here along with demos and various EP tracks — you might call Santa Lucia a particularly proggy metal band, or an unusually aggressive prog outfit. But then there’s those keyboards … The band’s lengthy, twisty, wildly unpredictable songs often recall dystopian art-metalists Voivod, if they’d spiced up their sound with gothy New Wave and anthemic proto–pop-punk.
Information on Santa Lucia in English is scarce, and it’s especially tantalizing that the booklet for— packed with charming photos showing the spiky-haired members posing on jungle gyms and post-apocalyptic stage sets, and strolling down snowy city streets — features text exclusively in Finnish. But there are a few hints as to where the band’s weird, polyglot sound may have stemmed from.
“Most of us have known each other since the age of 7,” the members write in a joint statement . “We were 12 when we formed the band, at 16 we got a recording contract and at 21 we quit. We were cool, self-indulgent, wacky … . This was not easy for everyone to digest. In the 1980s, many people were tight-lipped about how girls should be, live and behave, but fortunately we were not pressed into the boxes created by these expectations.
Both the band and Svart deserve serious kudos for this set. We can only hope that they’re able to issuedigitally at some point: Santa Lucia’s sound might be esoteric but the emotions that fueled it are universal.
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