Cor De Lux

The band Cor De Lux grew out of the tight-knit music scene of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, in 2018. They are based in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Founding members Dawn Moraga (guitar and vocals) and Tim Lusk (guitar) found each other (at a local computer repair shop owned by Tim) by chance while sharing a conversation about music. Realizing that they had so much in common (similar tastes in music, musician friends), this turned out to be the catalyst for their band’s formation. In late 2018, Lusk and Moraga added musicians and friends from the local scene to complete their lineup: Dana Quinn (on drums and vocals), and John Bliven (on bass). “We hit it off during our first practice. It's hard to explain, other than, we didn't want it to end,” says Cor De Lux’s Moraga. Their music, a mixture of post-punk and shoegaze, has earned their sound the tongue-in-cheek nickname referred to by friends and members of the band alike, as, a kind of… ‘Shoe-Gazi,’ (as it resembles a cross between shoegaze and the music of Dischord post-punk band, Fugazi). The band's debut album, Dream Life, was recorded and mixed in late 2019 over multiple sessions. It was mastered at Black Belt Mastering (by Levi Seitz). Just prior to completing its production at the pressing plant, Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, Ohio, the band received word that Gotta Groove had to temporarily halt work due to the beginnings of the pandemic (mid-March, 2020). Fast-forward to July 2020, and the production for their debut was completed and released as an autographed variant on Milky Clear vinyl via a specialty seller, and as a non-autographed version in both Milky Clear and black vinyl, on the band's Bandcamp.