Lights - PEP (April 1, 2022) Album

Brand new full length comin atcha!



1. Beside Myself
2. In My Head ft. Josh Dun
3. Prodigal Daughter
4. Salt and Vinegar
5. Money In The Bag ft. Kiesza
6. Jaws
7. Rent
8. Sparky
9. Real Thing ft. Elohim
10. Easy Money
11. Okay Okay
12. Voices Carry
13. Grip

 

I really wished I liked these more. Happy to hear she's still making music though!

 

I love Prodigal Daughter and enjoy Real Thing, feels more interlude-y to me than a main song. 3rd single out tomorrow.

 

Yay

 

I'd imagine Beside Myself has got to be included in this release? Easily my favorite release from her since Little Machines.

 

@Ellamamama I doubt it, but I LOVE that song. All the promo for this album has been very meticulous and only has included Prodigal Daughter, Real Thing and Salt & Vinegar so far.

 

Album art looks awesome

 

It does seem like Beside Myself will be on the album

 

Based off the first image top left of the cover?

 

well wouldya look at that!

 

Besides Myself as the opener - love it

 

Cant wait for the ridiculously good acoustic version of this record in two years

 

I'm diggin the new song and just blown away by how good the visuals have been this album cycle. All 3 videos, the album cover and her whole instagram feed have been so in line

 

Tim Pagnotta worked on Salt and Vinegar, very cool

 

I've been a Lights fan since The Listening and this may be the first album I can't get into. "Beside Myself" is great, but these three singles are just not for me at all.

 

Also, while the art direction for this album is cool with the primary colors and the studio photography isn't bad, the actual design of the cover is very amateur. I'm guessing it's probably something she made herself, but there's no consistency or uniformity to the illustration style of the song icons and the font is just a freeware copy of the Star Trek logo (note the straight interiors of the S and the shortened bar of the G).




(not that this means anything to anyone else, but it's something that really bothers me and I can't unsee)

 

Album art is awesome and she most likely did it herself because she's badass

 

Look, she's a gifted musician and a brilliant aestheticist, but her practical design skills aren't on the same level (if that cover is her design), and there's no shame in that.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be ripping skulls off of Google "side skull vector" searches:




Like I said, I'm a big fan of hers and I think the art direction as a whole is great, I just wish she had entrusted the help of a pro designer to help her in this one area because the direction is so strong. Sorta like your one friend who is incredibly talented on guitars and keys -- but just OK on drums -- yet, in the studio, they insist on recording all the parts themselves when there are so many great drummers out there...

Anyway, I digress since no one truly cares about the album artwork here anyway

 

I feel like people should be freaking out about Salt & Vinegar. It's SOOOOOOOO good!

...and don't even get me started on Prodigal Daughter. Do you know how many quiet moments I've had since the first time I heard either of those songs (I hadn't even heard about Prodigal Daughter until Salt & Vinegar)? Fucking zero. One of them is running through my head constantly.

The only stuff I really know in these sorts of sonic ballparks are CHVRCHES, the earlier Ellie Goulding stuff, I think Glass Animals could be sort of related...and that's about all I know. Any other recommendations in this musical realm?

 

I wish she would do more features on harder tracks. She has a perfect voice for it similar to the keyboardist from Make Them Suffer. I wonder why she hasn't featured more with blessthefall.