The Best of Luck Club is the second album from Melbourne, Australia’s indie sweetheart Alex Lahey. A great choice for fans of Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville and Lahey’s fellow Aussie icon, Courtney Barnett.  

The Best of Luck Club is a simple but enjoyable pop album. After his debut Love You Like a Brother, where fans might have hoped for more emotional depth, they’re met with just as catchy, slightly more hollow pop songs.  

The first single from the album, “Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself,” stands out with a cheesy, but charismatic saxophone solo from Lahey as the focal point. The high energy teen-anthem, “Am I Doing It Right?” pulls from more pop-punk influences and certainly wouldn’t sound out of place playing at your local Hot Topic, especially when she shouts “Don’t say I’ve got nothing to prove” in the chorus.  

“Unspoken History” and “I Want to Live With You” stand out as the emotional core of the album, both introspective ballads dealing with relationships.  

Towards the end of the album the songs begin to blend into each other, fitting into a similar stylistic pattern. Though it feels like a step back from where the artist could’ve gone after her debut, The Best of Luck Club still manages to be an entertaining sophomore effort.  

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