Download: Lights On, ‘Red Lights Flashing’
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The late-’80s British alt-rock canon looms large over a certain type of West Coast indie hopeful, to such an extent that some bands never quite seem able to step out from under the ample shadow. Not so with San Diego’s Lights On, which has followed up on the promise of debut EP “Waiting to Hear the Beat” with a bold statement of intent on its first full-length, “Here Comes the Ocean.” Led by multi-instrumentalists Timothy Hines and Mike Kamoo – who has helmed San Diego’s Earthling Studios for some seven years now – the quintet expands upon the requisite Bunnymen and Smiths influences with an album heavy on vintage synths, insistent rhythms and melodic pop hooks.
||| Download: “Red Lights Flashing”
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– By David McKay
||| Also: After the jump, check out the video for “We Live Underground”:
Lights On We Live Underground from Greg Vegas on Vimeo.
“Lights on” is a good band. Very,very,very new wave. I like this journalist David McKay. He must be a professional writer. His descriptive and concise writing is refreshing in a world where anyone with fingers thinks he knows how to write.
Nice work Dave!