Lights is a trippy, psychedelic rock band out of Brooklyn, whose self-titled debut I reviewed recently for Popmatters
Lights Lights (Language of Stone) US release date: 22 April 2008 UK release date: 28 April 2008
by Jennifer Kelly
There are two extraordinary things about this debut album from Brooklyn’s Lights. First, you have the close, eerie harmonies of Sophia Knapp and Linnea Vedder, sweet but with an edge of madness, casting flowers Ophelia-style into drowning currents of sound. Second, you have the guitar, filtered through every sort of pedal, different from song to song, but everywhere mesmerizing. When the two work together, as on the extended, mind-changing “Break, Run, Fly”, it is as if the female half of, say, Feathers had stepped in front of an early run-through of “Interstellar Overdrive”.
More here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/58834/lights-lights/
My Trusted MOGs
After hearing this breathtaking overture and reading your review, I really want to know more about these Brooklyn "strigas."
The track you've offered sound like an incantation in a medieval wood sung by not by human or even witches but by sylvan spirits. Utterly spellbinding.
Thank for the heads up, Jenny.
My Trusted MOGs
You're welcome. This is my favorite track on the album by a good margin -- it's one of the stranger ones -- but it's a pretty good one all the way through.
My Trusted MOGs
Awesome. The guitars remind me of Country Joe and The Fish's "Section 43". I like their harmony and bonus points for screamings. I want to hear more of this.