Favorite Band Right Now: Luigi
So I guess that maybe I’m a little late to the party when it comes to Luigi, who’s 2005 disc Found On The Forest Floor seems to have permanently wedged itself into my CD player as well as my brain. But even though they’re pretty well known around Atlanta, I don’t get the feeling that many people in the rest of the world are hip to them yet, so here I am to toot their horn a little bit. Luigi is made up of former members of Ultrababyfat and Magnapop, among others, and if you’re familiar with either of those two bands, you’ll sort of have an idea of what to expect. Found On The Forest Floor is an outstanding collection of bright, catchy guitar pop full of hooks that get stuck in your head and just won’t get out. Luigi is low-key, imaginative, smart, fun… Seriously, check ‘em out — they’ve got the goods. Hell, they even have a nutty video that apparently follows singer Michelle DuBois around at her day job working in, uh, the CSI lab or something. She can totally sing and look through a microscope at the same time — can your favorite band do that?