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DKMNTL 060EP
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Californian electronic pop duo Peaking Lights make a splash on Dekmantel with Sea Of Sand, the band's first release in 2018. Sea Of Sand feels like a mini-LP, with a diverse mix of experimental beats, and extended electronic, pop dubs. The record kicks off with the quirky, upbeat pop track "Blind Corner", followed by slower Italo-like "Hypnotized". There's a wavey-krautrock sound on "Shift Your Mind", a glowing romanticism on "Read Your Mind", and a celestial ambience embedded through "Noise Of Life".
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TFR 002EP
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Peaking Lights are back at it. While the clouds of pessimism hover, rays of sunshine cut and break through with two new tracks for healing and conquering the shadows that loom. The vocal version of "Little Flower" features Chloe Sevigny -- a beautiful, melancholic, yet powerful chant to Saint Therese, an alchemical figure. Peaking Lights' production is a playfully psychedelic mid-tempo love jam with a lot of groove. "Conga Blue" is followed by its instrumental cut; an upbeat weirdo disco cut laying it down at 120bpm with dreamy vocals and a solid rhythm section that holds it together.
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TFR 003CD
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Peaking Lights' fifth album, titled The Fifth State Of Consciousness, was produced in their Dreamfuzz studio over two years. It's both a departure from the new and a return to the old with a whole new twist on the psychedelic dub-pop they've become known for. Sonically the album shifts through many states from beginning to end, resonating deep, like a drive through foreign landscapes where you're glued to the window, as everything slowly changes around you. The flow and pacing of songs has a sense of wonderment, and each time you play it, there's a whole new batch of lovely sounds and eccentricities within each of the players. While bringing together their love of psychedelic music, house, electronic, and reggae, each song manages to live its own life and yet still there is some magical thread that binds them together. Produced by Aaron Coyes, the whole creative process was filled with nerdy gadgetry, playful experimentation, and deep alchemical soul searching for a musical medicine. Aaron describes Dreamfuzz as "a small junkyard with many happy mistakes." Using tape machines, writing melodies backwards then playing them in reverse, layering sound upon sound to create "pads", literally breaking electronics to get sounds, and a strict motto of "anything goes, pure creativity." Most sounds were run through Peaking Lights' 1976 16/8 Soundcraft Series Two mixing console (the same type of board used by Lee "Scratch" Perry at Black Ark, and at the infamous Cargo Studios where many of the early Factory Records bands were recorded) to add some "mojo". It's an album that is sure to be a creeper, even if you don't fall in love on the first date.
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TFR 003LP
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Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Peaking Lights' fifth album, titled The Fifth State Of Consciousness, was produced in their Dreamfuzz studio over two years. It's both a departure from the new and a return to the old with a whole new twist on the psychedelic dub-pop they've become known for. Sonically the album shifts through many states from beginning to end, resonating deep, like a drive through foreign landscapes where you're glued to the window, as everything slowly changes around you. The flow and pacing of songs has a sense of wonderment, and each time you play it, there's a whole new batch of lovely sounds and eccentricities within each of the players. While bringing together their love of psychedelic music, house, electronic, and reggae, each song manages to live its own life and yet still there is some magical thread that binds them together. Produced by Aaron Coyes, the whole creative process was filled with nerdy gadgetry, playful experimentation, and deep alchemical soul searching for a musical medicine. Aaron describes Dreamfuzz as "a small junkyard with many happy mistakes." Using tape machines, writing melodies backwards then playing them in reverse, layering sound upon sound to create "pads", literally breaking electronics to get sounds, and a strict motto of "anything goes, pure creativity." Most sounds were run through Peaking Lights' 1976 16/8 Soundcraft Series Two mixing console (the same type of board used by Lee "Scratch" Perry at Black Ark, and at the infamous Cargo Studios where many of the early Factory Records bands were recorded) to add some "mojo". It's an album that is sure to be a creeper, even if you don't fall in love on the first date.
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NNF 217CD
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2012 repress. "Sometimes it feels so simple: two of our favorite people in one of our favorite bands release one of our favorite records of all time. 2009's Imaginary Falcons was its own genius slushpile of tape-hissy drift-dub haze anthems, no question, but 936 takes every facet of the Peaking Lights mighty diamond and shines it to fluorescent perfection. The songwriting is insane; 'All The Sun That Shines,' 'Amazing & Wonderful,' 'Tiger Eyes (Laid Back),' etc, all seep into yr mindstream and float there like melodic gold dust. Indra Dunis' silky soul-jazz keys and tranced vocals have never sounded so exquisite, and Aaron Coyes busts out the best bass/drum loops and sneaky dub guitar of his musical lifetime. Recorded by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City (where both the NNF Wet Hair LPs were tracked) and mastered in Berlin, 936 retains the cool crate-digger grit of their earlier highlights, but within a much more vivid spectrum of sound. Could not be more jazzed and honored to unveil this total groove-wave classic. CD version includes two bonus tracks from the same recording sessions not chosen for inclusion on the LP. CD digipaks with vintage art by the band, plus some stills from their 'All The Sun That Shines' video. Edition of 500."
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