Lucius' 6 favorite songs for starting the day right

Guitarist Peter Lalish recommends tunes by Stevie Wonder, Robert Wyatt, and more

Lucius
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As nearly every one of their press photos contends, the Brooklyn quintet Lucius is a band that's highly interested in crafting a specific aesthetic, with lead vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig even regularly wearing identically matching outfits. The outfits, said Wolfe in an interview, guarantee not only an "automatic uniformity," but also help take "the focus away from one person so you have to visualize them as a unit."

As it happens, Lucius is very good at this, creating nuggets of melodic, rootsy indie pop dressed with '60s girl group harmonies and thumping percussion. It's music that is wonderful to listen to, but becomes truly three-dimensional once you watch the group perform (try this video). While touring on the 2013 release of their debut album, Wildewoman, can get tiring, guitarist Peter Lalish has a secret weapon: a playlist.

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Samantha Rollins

Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.