Lights Fluorescent - The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons '2019

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Made up of Dave Harrington (Darkside/Dave Harrington Group) and Benjamin Jay
(NDF/Benoit & Sergio), Lights Fluorescent is, as the two describe it, an
‘experiment in the spaces between song and texture, idea and reference,
past and present.’ On their debut album, The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest
Sons, the duo develops an atmospheric, slant-pop sensibility that lists toward
the experimental tendencies of improvisational and ambient music.
The result is a set of songs meant to be lived with. Entirely percussion-less,
recordings drift on a tenderness of guitar, revenant feedback and vocals of
autumnal intimation. Space Metal and July 9th process layers of bespoke noise
and washed out chords to tarry with integral depth, light, and shadow, while
Hotels distills country-western longing into its nth dimensional essence always
unrequited.
From within these sonic panoramas, vocals emerge more as watercolor traces than
coarse etchings. They aim to capture evocative, lyrical intensities, eschewing
the solace of the literal. As such, the album favors the gestural, the implicit,
and the miniature over the more adolescent urges of grand narratives and
epic.’ These preferences map onto the album in all of its moves. J Girls
reveals a hint of story buried, like its context, deep in whorls of feedback.
Fleeting images of monuments, cathedrals, or epitaphs on tracks like Palace
Walls or Small Sacrifices speak to a sense of memory and community paradoxically
ungrounded by the material instantiations meant to keep things in place.

Tracklist:
01. Lights Fluorescent - The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons (3:06)
02. Lights Fluorescent - Our Earlier Years (2:49)
03. Lights Fluorescent - Space Metal (1:33)
04. Lights Fluorescent - Palace Walls (4:05)
05. Lights Fluorescent - Epitaphs (2:45)
06. Lights Fluorescent - Hotels (2:40)
07. Lights Fluorescent - Neil Young/Cues (4:41)
08. Lights Fluorescent - Small Sacrifices (4:09)
09. Lights Fluorescent - J Girls (4:24)
10. Lights Fluorescent - July 9th (3:45)

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