IRC is excited to introduce all eyes and ears on this page to Eau Claire, Wisconsin forklift driver, Ross Lucas, who moonlights as a musician in his off-hours.
Lucas’ wonderful track, “Under The Sun,” is a sparsely filled, experimental composition fashioning a skinny rhythm on electric guitar and Lucas’ strangely interesting vocals and lyrics – which are spoken more than they are sung. It reminds some of Mac DeMarco.
He says that he failed music in his freshman year of high school and promptly left school to start his first band Wussbudget. Lucas never looked back, opening for bands like Tenement, Arms Aloft, and Savage Unicorn.
He moved to the U.K. following the break up of the band. During his two-year sojourn, Lucas wrote a flurry of new songs while managing to “get kicked out of a couple different bands for failing to sound like either John Squire or Tom DeLonge.”
“Under The Sun” is one of those salvaged tracks. This is what we love about indie – you don’t have to fit into a box.
Lucas is a one-man band and multi-instrumentalist. He plays, records, mixes, and masters his tracks laying down all of the work on guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. “Under The Sun” is off of his 2020 EP, Pastoral Paragraphs, a recommended listen.
