''Lux'' is the debut

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from American

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band

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. It was released on September 10, 2013 through

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. "Pleasure and Pain", "Basement", "Left of Me," and "Stardust" have all been released as singles. The final single "Stardust" peaked at No. 19 on the

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chart in the US. "Basement," "Resurrection," "Take This," and "Syndrome" were all previously released on the rare EP they released in January 2011.

Reception

The album peaked at No. 3 on the Top Heatseekers charts.

Song Meanings

Aaron Nordstrom on Basement: "Basement is pretty personal. That's just blatant discussion of me being the teenager with Albinism and my conversation with God at the time and being angry about it, not trying - not really understanding where I fit in in society in my peer group. ..It was a working title at beginning, but it kinda worked out in a sense that as a kid, and even if I could now, I would, I always lived in the basement because it was darker. I'm photosensitive, being Albino, so it was always darker." Aaron Nordstrom on Mourning Star: "I wrote that at really stressful time of my life. It's not directly related to anything I was going through necessarily at the time. That song is more of a diatribe about the fall of Lucifer from heaven and in that sense of metaphor for everybody's kinda battle with their own faith in, I don't want to say God necessarily, but you know, their place in the universe and your purpose for being here. I went through a very, very emotional point when I was writing that song. That was a really heavy emotional time for me to put on paper."

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

* Aaron Nordstrom -

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* Rich Juzwick -

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* Mike Salerno - guitars, backing vocals * Alessandro Paveri -

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* Brian Steele Medina -

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References

2013 debut albums Gemini Syndrome albums Warner Records albums Albums produced by Kevin Churko {{2010s-rock-album-stub