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01. Lights Fluorescent - The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons
02. Lights Fluorescent - Our Earlier Years
03. Lights Fluorescent - Space Metal
04. Lights Fluorescent - Palace Walls
05. Lights Fluorescent - Epitaphs
06. Lights Fluorescent - Hotels
07. Lights Fluorescent - Neil Young/Cues
08. Lights Fluorescent - Small Sacrifices
09. Lights Fluorescent - J Girls
10. Lights Fluorescent - July 9th
ARTIST
TITLE
The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KDS 012LP KDS 012LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/6/2019

Made up of Dave Harrington (Darkside, Dave Harrington Group) and Benjamin Jay (NDF, Benoit & Sergio), Lights Fluorescent is, as the two describe it, an "experiment in the spaces between song and texture, idea and reference, past and present." On their debut album, The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons, the duo develops an atmospheric, slant-pop sensibility that lists toward the experimental tendencies of improvisational and ambient music. The result is a set of songs meant to be lived with. Entirely percussion-less, recordings drift on a tenderness of guitar, revenant feedback, and vocals of autumnal intimation. "Space Metal" and "July 9th" process layers of bespoke noise and washed out chords to tarry with integral depth, light, and shadow, while Hotels distills country-western longing into its nth dimensional essence always unrequited. From within these sonic panoramas, vocals emerge more as watercolor traces than coarse etchings. They aim to capture evocative, lyrical intensities, eschewing the solace of the literal. As such, the album favors "the gestural, the implicit, and the miniature over the more adolescent urges of grand narratives and epic." These preferences map onto the album in all of its moves. "J Girls" reveals a hint of story buried, like its context, deep in whorls of feedback. Fleeting images of monuments, cathedrals, or epitaphs on tracks like "Palace Walls" or "Small Sacrifices" speak to a sense of memory and community paradoxically ungrounded by the material instantiations meant to keep things in place.