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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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Appearances can be often be deceiving, and in this instance, the saying couldn’t be any more correct when looking at photos of Brightblack Morning Light and then listening to their new sophomore release, Motion To Rejoin. One look at Brightblack Morning Light’s Nathan “Naybob” Shineywater and Rachel “Raybob” Hughes and it would be easy to discount these two as nothing more than a couple of neo-hippies who spend more time crafting their look then actually creating music. That is, until the smooth sounds of a Fender Rhodes melded with the hushed shoegaze vocals starts sauntering forth from the speakers, and all preconceived notions of “hippie” music instantaneously go up in smoke. With this, all of a sudden, the southern rooted country soul and gospel music of Brightblack Morning Light, who are originally from Alabama, becomes way more interesting than their hippie lifestyle used to pitch the them to press (something about coming back from a European tour where Shineywater sang every show with an arrowhead in his mouth and then moving into an adobe in northern New Mexico that is powered by four solar panels).
MP3: Brightblack Morning Light – Hologram Buffalo
Brightblack Morning Light play the Detroit Bar (843 W 19th St, Costa Mesa, CA) next Tuesday, October 21st