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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Claire Biddles and Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Add to playlist: the art-pop showtunes of Luki and the week’s best new tracks

The musician Luki wearing a sparkly blue top and standing against a white wall
Wisdom and fallibility … Lucy Duncan AKA Luki. Photograph: Matthew Arthur Williams

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The first time listening to Luki feels like a miraculous discovery of something timeless and true, as though they’ve been waiting patiently to be discovered in the noisy maelstrom of contemporary pop music. The collaborative alias of singer/composer Lucy Duncan and producer Niac, Luki write off-kilter showtunes performed as baroque art songs, embodying a seemingly contradictory combination of grand melodrama and nuanced emotional character.

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