The Mystery Lights by The Mystery Lights [VINYL]

	£		26
	$		34

Description

Tracks:
Follow Me Home
Flowers in My Hair, Demons in My Head
Too Many Girls
Without Me
Melt
Candlelight
21 & Counting
Too Tough to Bear
Before My Own
What Happens When You Turn the Devil Down

Performer Notes:

• West Coast natives Mike Brandon and Luis "L.A." Solano have been tweaking their version of fuzz-toned garage and psychedelia since their high-school days in Salinas, California. Over the years, the Mystery Lights underwent a number of lineup changes and a cross-continental relocation for their founding members before settling down to work as a New York band marrying city punk grit with classic garage fervor. With a handful of EPs and one full-length behind them, the retooled lineup eventually found home on retro-minded Daptone's rock imprint, Wick Records. In fact, the Mystery Lights are the label's inaugural release, and from the sound of their 2016 self-titled LP, they've landed in the right spot. Tonally, the album is a bit of a time capsule as the Lights go whole-hog down the Nuggets-era rabbit hole. The chirping Farfisa organs, the biting reverb-soaked riffs, and Brandon's rasping yelps all feel unearthed from some mid-'60s vault. After an instrumental fanfare of an intro, they make their opening shot with "Follow Me Home," a gritty, minor-key rocker with some solid group call-and-response backing vocals and enough sweaty menace to mean business. With its snaky organ and stuttering vibrato, the midtempo "Candlelight" again dances around in a minor key before revving up into a frantic freakout in its latter half. The Mystery Lights give off the feeling of a wild and even dangerous live band and it comes across here on record. ~ Timothy Monger

Format: Vinyl (1 Disc)

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 24 June, 2016

Label: Wick Records

Dimensions: 31.2 x 0.7 x 31.2 centimeters (0.28 kg)

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