# Wisconsin Forklift Driver and Musician Ross Lucas’ Wonderfully Strange “Under The Sun”

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2020/12/ross-lucas-wonderfully-strange-track-under-the-sun/
- Published: 2020-12-14T02:58:50-05:00
- Author: Max Hammer

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.

 1. [Under The Sun](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/08-Under-The-Sun-Pastoral-Paragraphs.mp3)

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.

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