Album Review: Luwten Sings To Life On Draft

The beauty of Luwten, as an artist, is that she truly blends a soundscape with a spiritual scape. Music is a soulful experience. It is a reflection of your humanity, and Luwten consistently finds wise truths on what it means to be a person. For her, we are on constant draft: consistently inconsistent. Like a plant, rooted to the earth, she is reaching to the sky, but realizing that no flower grows direct. 

I reviewed Luwten’s last album, Door, and it was a glorious take on grief. Not too many focus on, what I feel, is one of the most palpatable feelings we will ever have in our lifetimes. This is, in part, because we don’t know how to handle grief or what Wandavision describes as the “perseverance of love.” Once again, in Draft, Luwten takes on another scary, human emotion: incompleteness. There is a constant feeling that you are never truly whole, and that there is some lesson you need to learn, some hope you to gain, a few dream you need to lose, and a couple of triumphs you must enjoy. Thus, being always “on draft” can be a frustrating truth until you embrace the fun, opportunity, and enlightenment that comes with being a bunch of stories wrapped in one book. 

Perhaps, our frustration on always being in a state of growth comes with the fact that we think we have to grow into someone specific or in one set way. Tracks like, The Thought Of You, Stopwatch, Full Well, and Haircut have Luwten confronting that being ever-changing does not have to be sad or even joyous. It can simply be expansive. Thus, her soundscape of synths and euphoric/ earthy noises combines to show that being on “draft” is a mystical experience. You can enjoy or cry over it, or you can simply stay in wonder of it; watching yourself like a viewer ready and willing to change channels and even write a few episodes. To Buy Luwten’s Draft Click Here.