This weekend I’ll mostly be listening to… Lights Out Asia

Following on from last weeks contribution it’s clearly time for something a little quieter, a little more reflective. Lights Out Asia are post-rock/electronica band from Milwaukee who dabble in ambient and shoegaze. I mentioned their Tanks and Recognizers album some years ago, and here from their Eyes Like Brontide album – Brontide for those of you asking apparently means ‘a low muffled sound like distant thunder heard in certain seismic regions’, so that’s okay then, is a further series of tracks. These, dating from 2008, are more ambient than T&R, but mighty fine in their way.

For some reason they’re fascinated by Soviet era iconography and this is, as we can see from some of the samples and track titles, reflected on the album.

Reference points? Well I hear Talk Talk, or even Bark Psychosis in there, but they’re less jagged, more melodic. Perhaps that’s a function of their shoegaze roots. Their stuff is on the most interesting n5MD record label which for those interested in this – admittedly fairly broad – genre is worth stopping by.

Enjoy.

“Psiu! Puxa!”

Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl

Mir

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