The Luyas

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Too Beautiful to Work 03:41 Tools
Fifty Fifty 04:05 Tools
Tiny Head 04:20 Tools
Worth Mentioning 03:48 Tools
Channeling 04:08 Tools
Cold Canada 03:36 Tools
Moodslayer 03:44 Tools
Spherical Mattress 04:16 Tools
Canary 05:23 Tools
Montuno 08:39 Tools
What Mercy Is 01:53 Tools
Talking Mountains 03:17 Tools
I Need Mirrors 02:14 Tools
Face 05:25 Tools
Seeing Things 03:39 Tools
The Quiet Way 02:30 Tools
Your Name's Mostly Water 05:46 Tools
Cats in a Bag 05:41 Tools
Dumb Blood 04:43 Tools
Traces 04:40 Tools
Earth Turner 06:10 Tools
Crimes Machine 01:27 Tools
Flickering Lights (Will Likely Fail You) 03:37 Tools
When I Am a Woman 04:01 Tools
Says You 05:55 Tools
Play Dead 02:42 Tools
Tantamount 03:39 Tools
Forget Penzance 02:04 Tools
Quelle Horreur 02:47 Tools
Self-Unemployed 02:47 Tools
In My Next Life, a Workhorse 05:55 Tools
Dream of Love 05:55 Tools
Dream in Time 05:55 Tools
Fed to the Lions 05:55 Tools
All of Everything 05:55 Tools
Beating Bowser 05:55 Tools
No Domination 02:54 Tools
Engineers 02:54 Tools
Never Before 02:54 Tools
Motion Picture Soundtrack 02:54 Tools
God Is Pink 02:54 Tools
Lady Stardust (The Luyas) 02:42 Tools
Bucky's (2hours) Late 02:42 Tools
If It Exists 02:42 Tools
Lady Stardust 02:42 Tools
Meet the Frownies 04:00 Tools
Lady Stardust (David Bowie) 02:42 Tools
THE LUYAS 'Fifty Fifty' 04:04 Tools
"Too Beautiful To Work" 00:00 Tools
Spherical Mattress - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Worth Mentioning (Bell Song) 00:00 Tools
Pietro walks (talk) 00:00 Tools
Traces (live at Stratosphere Sound) 04:06 Tools
Face (live at Stratosphere Sound) 05:03 Tools
Pietro's Walk 05:03 Tools
Bucky's (2 Hours) Late 05:03 Tools
"Too Beautiful to Work" (Official Video) 05:03 Tools
Channeling (Buzzsession) 04:06 Tools
The Luyas, 'Fifty Fifty' 05:03 Tools
Pietro is Late 04:06 Tools
Fifty / Fifty 04:04 Tools
In My Next Life a Workhorse 04:06 Tools
Sperical Mattress 04:04 Tools
makes you blind (talk) 04:04 Tools
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The Luyas from Montreal did their first live performance in December 2006. Their first album, Faker Death came out in August 2007, and was re-released in January 2008 on Pome Records; that label was subsequently disbanded and the album's distribution rights were picked up by You've Changed Records. Jessie Stein, formerly active in SS Cardiacs, is also a member of Miracle Fortress, and is the sister of By Divine Right's José Miguel Contreras. Amato and Schneider are both members of Bell Orchestre, Amato also plays in Torngat and was formerly a horn player for Arcade Fire. The band played at the Pop Montreal festival in 2008 and the M for Montreal Festival in 2009. The band uses an uncommon set of instruments featuring guitars, a French horn, piles of keyboards, drums and percussion. Singer/guitarist Jessie Stein expands the band’s musical vocabulary when she plays the Moodswinger, a 12-string electric zither designed by the Dutch experimental luthier Yuri Landman. The band became a four piece band with the addition of Mathieu Charbonneau in their line-up. The Luyas were profiled by McSweeneys in the spring of 2010. In the same year the band signed to Dead Oceans for a release of their second album. Working with engineer Jeff McMurrich (Tindersticks, Constantines), The Luyas have also teamed up with friend and colleague Owen Pallett, who is lending his arranging skills and violin playing to a number of tracks. The Luyas released their second album Too Beautiful to Work on Dead Oceans in February 2011. The Canadian release of the record was also in February 2011 via a new imprint called Idée Fixe Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.