Though often referred to as a "shoegaze band," Luminous Orange's Rie Takeuchi says she is neither of those two things.
"I don't like being described as a shoegaze band," she says with a friendly smile on the first mention of the "s" word. "I think it's boring to think about music in terms of genre."
Takeuchi, who is the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the alternative-rock act, says there's more to the music of Luminous Orange that can be summed up in a simple word like "shoegaze" or "dreampop." She also politely points out that the project isn't really a band anymore, but more on that later.