Tom Vek - Luck (Deluxe 10 Year Anniversary Edition) (2024)

Breaking on to the scene with the attitude-spiked We Have Sound (2005), Vek channelled his homegrown musical prowess into a bastion of mid-noughties electronic punk rock rebellion. His long awaited follow-up, Leisure Seizure (2011), was less raw but no less impactful. Now mixing the expertise learned from both, his newest offering, Luck is Vek’s biggest and most daring album release to date.

Drawing on the modern anxiety of finding your place in a world saturated by information, Luck plunges the personal to deliver tracks that are sincere, angry and poignant. Sherman (Animals in the Jungle) – a searing comment on our state of moral ambivalence inspired by Tom Wolfe’s novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities - delivers a bold chord sequence and a bass-line of such grandiose proportions as to rival Kanye, spliced with synth motifs reminiscent of the opening to Kiss by Prince. Angry funk, for the lost generation compelled to head bang in unison to its intoxicating repetition.

Tracklist:
1. Tom Vek - How Am I Meant to Know (02:38)
2. Tom Vek - Sherman (Animals in the Jungle) (04:03)
3. Tom Vek - Broke (04:23)
4. Tom Vek - Pushing Your Luck (04:35)
5. Tom Vek - Ton of Bricks (05:36)
6. Tom Vek - Trying to Do Better (04:58)
7. Tom Vek - The Girl You Wouldn't Leave for Any Other Girl (04:19)
8. Tom Vek - A Mistake (04:06)
9. Tom Vek - You'll Stay (04:05)
10. Tom Vek - The Tongue Avoids the Teeth (04:06)
11. Tom Vek - Let's Pray (03:52)
12. Tom Vek - Prayers (03:54)
13. Tom Vek - Crying Out For Love (04:02)
14. Tom Vek - When I (01:48)
15. Tom Vek - Your Future Self (04:43)
16. Tom Vek - The Wildest Lion (02:56)