Luxury Releases Fifth Album; Documentary to Screen at Plaza Theatre

Luxury coalesced in the early 1990s at Toccoa Falls College, a Christian liberal arts school in Toccoa, Georgia. Experiencing a host of triumphs and tragedies in the years since, the original lineup, augmented by second guitarist Matt Hinton who joined in 1999, endures to this day. Their fifth album, "Trophies" (the band's first since 2005), will be released on June 14, 2019, full of poetic, powerful songs ranging in approach from alt-rock bombast to Smiths-influenced somersaults to utterly mesmerizing softer pieces.

The album comes on the heels of "Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury," an engrossing independent film about the group made by Hinton, detailing their encouraging reception from the Christian indie rock scene of the '90s, tragically derailed by a catastrophic van accident that left many of the group's members with broken necks and nearly killed its singer, Lee Bozeman. The documentary then follows the aftermath, as the members' lives and music evolve, with three of the members eventually becoming Eastern Orthodox priests.

After spending the past year playing the festival circuit, "Parallel Love" recently secured a distribution deal with Abramorama ("Anvil! The Story of Anvil"), and will make its Atlanta debut with a screening at the Plaza Theatre (1049 Ponce de Leon Avenue) on June 19, 2019, at 7 p.m. Hinton and several other band members will answer audience questions after the film.