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What we say
 This record left our BRIAN D feeling happy.
I've been herded towards the Light(s) CD. It's called 'Lights' and features sweet, hazy, overlapping female vocals over sparse basslines and ghostly free guitar 'licks'. It's a very autonomous album, slightly tribal & bewitching. The words swoop like giddy owls on 'Break, Run Fly' whilst the guitar sounds like it's escaped from an early Felt record, only to stagger drunkenly through some ghostly woodland copse in search of a resting place for the night. There's a suggestion of late 60's psych & a bit of free folk. Oh, not forgetting the slight CocoRosie/Kate Bush vibe. This seems like rather feminine and slightly spectral music with an emphasis on the pure lead twin vocals on a lot of passages, yet persevere and there's spots of Pentangle/Sandy Denny witchiness creeping around the aura of echo laden desert rock on one tune. Pretty fresh & charming all told! All is not safe in these woods....CD only on Twisted Nerve
What the label says:
Debut album from Greg Weeks (Espers) produced Brooklyn psych-folk sirens, Lights.
In
2007 Lights found themselves in Greg Weeks' (Espers) Hexham Head studio
in Philadelphia. With some analogue tape and a little help from their
friends, the band wove together their self-titled LP. The album is to
be released (late Spring 2008) on Weeks' Language of Stone label
through Twisted Nerve in the UK. Bass playing maverick and long-time
friend Andy MacLeod has recently joined the band.
Founding members
Sophia Knapp and Linnea Vedder met in 2004, a chance encounter that
bloomed quickly into a friendship, with their creative energies flowing
in the same channel. In 2005, Lights met Jana Hunter, Mouth of
Leaves, and Meadows. Their kinship begat the Summer of Golden Blood
Tour, and Lights left a whistling trail through the southern United
States before heading back to New York and the Williamsburg studio of
producer Chris Coady There, with candlelight and interstellar love,
they made their EP ‘Even in the Darkest Hours’.
The sun was setting
on the isle of Manhattan. By this time, Adam Mitchell from Meadows had
added his bass to Lights who became more keen-edged, and the music
could now be likened to a sort of abstracted pop music.
Wizard Smoke joined forces as projectionist and Lights became a full sensory experience.
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