"The Edge of Heaven", is an album of Lucas's lush arrangements of classic Chinese pop tunes from the 1930s, with a distinctly bluesy feel. It received positive international reviews from "Rolling Stone" to "The Wall Street Journal" to the "Hong Kong Music Weekly". It was #1 on the World Music Charts in Canada and garnered international attention, England's "Q" magazine awarding it 4 stars, and "Mojo" writing: "It is simply gorgeous". The album was chosen as one of the best discs of the year in France's "Libération" newspaper. There was a lengthy profile for the album in "The Wall Street Journal", as well as an NPR interview. Lucas released an expanded concert version of "The Edge of Heaven" with his band, Gods and Monsters, and vocalists Sally Kwok and Mo Hai Jin, both from Shanghai. The group received standing ovations at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam in June 2011.