A Poor Old Lu Acoustic Reunion Show Happened.

Videos below! 

from SLR&R: 

Poor Old Lu – Sin (Alarma, 1994). 

Sin is unquestionably the epitome of the Christian grunge era. And Christian rock, or any rock, has rarely seen a vocalist or lyricist like Scott Hunter. All  his vocal sounds seem polyphonic, like he’s always singing right at the break in his voice, between a low growl and a high falsetto, and what comes out is painfully pretty, a kind of delicate wheeze combined with an honest gravelly tenor. Hunter’s lyrics, too, are opaque and abstract, capturing moods more than ideas, often ungrammatical and awkward. Sin is an exploration and explanation of a culture, suburban middle-class kids who are confused about how things work, about why we are so effed up when we don’t want to be, about why we never seem to be able to do what is right when we think we know. The record’s most mind-blowing track, “Bliss Is,” is a blisteringly short funk-punk tune about growing up in a family that doesn’t communicate, tension and anger bubbling beneath the surface. Aaron Sprinkle does so much with one guitar, his younger brother Jesse has the talent of being able to both sound like he is playing a one-thousand piece drum set yet also that every weird fill he is playing is absolutely necessary, Scott Hunter sings about feeling suicidal and trapped by his family even though he is a youth pastor, and Nick Barber’s nonchalant funk basslines sneakily snake all over the place. John Goodmanson’s production is dirty, angry, and vital. Why have you never heard this band?

For the Love of My Country

Cannon-Fire Orange



Chance for the Chancers



Sickly