The band Cor de Lux grew out of the tight-knit music scene of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, in 2018. They are based in Kill Devil Hills, NC.
Founding members Dawn Moraga (guitar and vocals) and Tim Lusk (guitar) found each other (at a local computer repair shop owned by Tim) by chance while sharing a conversation about music. Realizing that they had so much in common (similar tastes in music, musician friends), this turned out to be the catalyst for their band’s formation. In late 2018, Lusk and Moraga added musicians and friends from the local scene to complete their lineup: Dana Quinn (on drums and vocals), and John Bliven (on bass). “We hit it off during our first practice. It's hard to explain, other than, we didn't want it to end,” says Cor De Lux’s Moraga. Their music, a mixture of post-punk and shoegaze, has earned their sound the tongue-in-cheek nickname referred to by friends and members of the band alike, as, a kind of… ‘Shoe-Gazi,’ (as it resembles a cross between shoegaze and the music of Dischord post-punk band, Fugazi).
The band's debut album, Dream Life, was recorded and mixed in late 2019 over multiple sessions. It was mastered at Black Belt Mastering (by Levi Seitz). Just prior to completing its production at the pressing plant, Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, Ohio, the band received word that Gotta Groove had to temporarily halt work due to the beginnings of the pandemic (mid-March, 2020). Fast-forward to July 2020, and the production for their debut was completed and released.
I met Dawn in a Facebook group she sent to me a personal playlist she was working, so we started chatting and when she told me that plays with Cor de Luz and I immediately involved her on the blog! Check it out, I'm sure you will enjoy it.
playlist:
01. Cor De Lux - Cold Summer
02. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Superbug
03. Palm - Walkie Talkie
04. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
05. The Oh Sees - Wing Run
06. Gang of Four - At Home, He's a Tourist
07. The Appleseed Cast - Santa Maria
08. Pale Dian - In a Day
09. Preoccupations - Disarray
10. Moaning - Artificial
11. Protomartyr - Pontiac 87
12. HNDCLW - In Your Hair
13. Slowdive - Sugar For the Pill