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Lycia
US darkwave band
Tempe, United States • b. 1988-05-01
Lycia is credited on 5 releases across 12 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 2008–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
5
Pressings credited
12
Albums
3
Decades active
10
In collections
Biography
Lycia is an American darkwave band formed in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara VanFlower and David Galas. Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in darkwave and ethereal wave styles. Their 1995 album The Burning Circle and Then Dust received some attention for the power pop hit song "Pray" and "remains a high point of American dark rock", according to AllMusic. Lycia's music is characterized by rich soundscapes and layers of echoed guitars, dark and ethereal keyboards, doomy drum machine beats, VanPortfleet's melancholic, whispered vocals and Vanflower's vivid voice. Peter Steele from Type O Negative hailed Lycia as ‘the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard in my life’.
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Credited work
5 releases · 12 albums · active 2008–2023
- Performance · 5
- Other credits · 2
- Production · 1
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Xasthur
- null (9)
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