St. Lucia at ?The Studio at The Factory

Jean-Philip Grobler and Patti Beranek, the primary songwriters in synth-pop band St. Lucia, have kept a low profile for the last few years. After concluding several tours for 2018’s Hyperion, the two largely disappeared from social media. When they eventually emerged, it wasn’t to hype new music but to share their lives as parents of two boys. The married couple, who moved from New York to Switzerland, have since moved to the German border town of Konstanz, where Beranek is from and her family still lives. They’ve shared videos of playing in snow, sharing lunch and introducing their boys to musical instruments. Every once in a while, they would share a snippet of a song, a sample, some modulated sound on a synthesizer. That’s because while they’ve not been sharing music, the two have remained busy making it. St. Lucia debuted the first taste of their next musical project on Friday with “Rocket On My Feet,” a pure dance pop number that Grobler said has a dark edge to it. The song is about finding an exit lane off the pandemic highway, but it’s also more than that. Grobler checked in Friday night with some background on the song and the state of St. Lucia.

– riffmagazine.com