“Weirdo Shrine” caps a busy year for Seattle locals La Luz, arriving just three months after singer-guitarist Shana Cleveland’s first LP with her side band The Sandcastles. On the new album, produced by garage rock hotshot Ty Seagall, the foursome ups the fidelity from its 2013 Hardly Art debut, “It’s Alive,” but sticks with its established style — surfy retro pop with inward-gazing tendencies.
Unhurried and highly listenable — they’ve really got those clean tones dialed in — the 11-song set hits its stride about halfway through, the wispy harmonies on “Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere” recalling the girl groups of Motown, as well as the wonderful Grass Widow — a sadly defunct San Francisco indie trio that is probably in Segall’s Rolodex.