Luke Reed :: "Rivers of Love"

Rooted in a Reading Rainbow synth-loop, Luke Reed builds latest single "Rivers of Love" like a dreamy ripple. The arrangement unfolds evenly, a measured and echoing world full of perfect and magical physics. Maybe a bit of form meeting function, Reed wades through the title lyric, "Rivers of love / I have swam through" at a pace that would even try the patience of a word like "languid". It's all beautiful, watery stuff, a group of shimmering forevers pushed out on the surface, floating into the distance on a narrow ribbon of liquid.

Luke Reed :: "At The Harbor"

Luke Reed, an artist with the scant outline of a digital footprint, makes a tidy slice of fuzzy pop on "At The Harbor." In the spirit of Long Walks On The Beach, Reed drowns surf-guitar riffs under some deep-end reverb, adding a fuzzy, sing-song melody to sail over the top of the arrangement. It all takes place in less than two minutes, an odd antecedent to Reed's most gripping lyric, "I've been waiting for a long time," a song about summer sand castles and girding yourself against old heartbreaks in the face of new loves. It is a bit fleeting as Reed shambles, "I want to stay like this forever," knowing, in all probability, he can't.