Download: Light FM, ‘Let Go’

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During Josiah Mazzaschi’s career fronting Light FM, his music has earned comparisons to Weezer, Radiohead, the Cure and, on the L.A.-based band’s fourth full-length “Buzz Kill City” (2011), fellow Chicago natives Smashing Pumpkins. As a writer of undeniably catchy hooks and as an astute studio hand, Mazzaschi has the skills to sound like anybody he darned well pleases, and to recombine hitmakers’ familiar aesthetics into a stew he calls “nugaze.” And so it is with Light FM’s new single – tweaked vocals, simmering synths, arena-ready production and all. Rock out, play spot-the-influence, or both.

||| Download: “Let Go”

||| Live: Light FM plays Thursday at the Satellite along with the Silver Chords, Black as a Feather and the Singularity.