Eat Lights Become Lights

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4...according to our Dave on Thu 24 Mar, 2011.

The debut LP from Eat Lights Become Lights wears its krautrock influences on its face. It has a right Neu feel to it. You can really imagine listening to this record in your wagon while speeding down der autobahn. Most of the songs on this album have a real urgent quality to them that I like. Most of the tracks are instrumental, but that's not a bad thing as the absence of vocals leaves a space that is great to indulge yourself in. Your mind can fully appreciate the throbbing bass lines and the ace musicianship. The 10 songs on this album are really well composed and sound great. They remind me also of Holy Fuck with their propulsive style of songwriting. They are quite exciting to listen to. For some reason they remind me of flying through space on a really badly superimposed background. Most of the tracks on this LP are really top-shelf (well in this country) my favourite at the moment is the powerful "Konst" it just sounds awesome. There are a few ermmm,...tender moments on this record too, which is no bad thing. You know you gotta tame the beast sometimes. This debut album was a real pleasure to listen to even though a member of our staff who shall remain nameless actually thinks some of the passages sound like music for Tampax ads....but he's currently getting bonced off ecstacy pipes in the staff toilet. Deutchland uber alles....what do you mean they're from London?? Ohh shit......

“Eat Lights; Become Lights mix Krautrock rhythms and celestial drones to heavenly effect” – NME. Formed in the winter of 2007 by Neil Rudd (Guitars, Programming, Loops) & later joined by Rob Hyde (Drums) & Alex Baker (Bass), Eat Lights; Become Lights share a deep love of classic German electronic acts of the 1970s, evoking classic kosmische bands but making the sound very much their own, creating an ever-changing synesthesic landscape of harmony and melody, feedback & drones, played against a driving motorik beat.

With the release of their debut single They Transmit in May 2008 on Enraptured Records, ELBL quickly gained critical praise from the likes of the NME, and record of the week slots from Manchester’s Piccadilly Records and Leeds’ Norman Records soon followed. The second single Klustered, released in April 2009, was equally well received, and the band set to work on a long-player. Gigging heavily since their conception, ELBL have steadily built up a reputation as a formidable live act, and the band have played several high-profile supports, including a sold-out tour with New York electronic pioneers Silver Apples as well as being championed by Stuart Maconie on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Freak Zone. Autopia sees the band finally condensing the maelstrom of their live shows into an LP – in contrast the record is tighter and more synthetic-sounding than the live show, recorded and edited using digital emulations of classic 60's compressors and EQs. The record takes in a range of musical touch points, steering from the obvious Kraut-influences to 90s shoegaze and techno, always underpinning each piece with, quite simply, great melodies. A wealth of live shows are planned for 2011 and the album release will be marked with a London launch party.

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