Lugh - El Rocio

In Zuzana Pabisova’s hallucinatory visual for ‘El Rocio’, a track taken from Re Munus, the debut album from . co-founder Lugh, we see figures moving amongst ocean spray, the camera flickering between abstract snatches of corporeal forms, goosebumps and wet hair, and the lysergic shimmering of the water captured from beneath it’s surface. It is the experience of drifting, both literally and metaphorically, that Lugh takes as a central conceit for this project, or what fellow . collaborators Michael Speers and Olan Monk term “personal drift”. During lockdown, “while observing the world through glass”, the Berlin-based producer was struck by a tension between “worry and anxiety for the fate of others, rather than my own” and “the alleviation of cynicism and despair due to a perceived wholly revived infrastructure of solidarity.” Responding to this tension, in opposition to a pre-pandemic propensity to drift through what Lugh describes as “the ethereal dream of social weigh