I picked up the GUNSHIP album after seeing @0x29A’s plug for it in Fresh Album Fridays and got stuck on this track immediately. I was already a huge Lights fan, so hearing her with this kind of...
Aw, nice! Glad to hear I had a small part in that discovery :) Yeah the singles for this album had me hyped on this release- one after another was just super solid and the album lives up to the...
Aw, nice! Glad to hear I had a small part in that discovery :) Yeah the singles for this album had me hyped on this release- one after another was just super solid and the album lives up to the hype!
And I do need to check out Lights and other collabs/features with GUNSHIP and hadn't yet- so this is a great reminder to do so.
Well, except HEALTH- which is another band I highly recommend that has had collabs with GUNSHIP before.
HEALTH are great, caught them live here in Glasgow last year and my face was melted off, so heavy. The Max Payne 3 soundtrack is incredible, where I first heard them, then Death Magic and then Vol...
HEALTH are great, caught them live here in Glasgow last year and my face was melted off, so heavy.
The Max Payne 3 soundtrack is incredible, where I first heard them, then Death Magic and then Vol 4, so good.
I’d never heard of GUNSHIP at all and didn’t even know Lights had a feature. I started up the album then went “hey, wait, I know that voice!” when I got to this song. It ended up being an...
I’d never heard of GUNSHIP at all and didn’t even know Lights had a feature. I started up the album then went “hey, wait, I know that voice!” when I got to this song. It ended up being an unintentionally perfect recommendation. Thanks for the pointer!
If you’re not into pop music, Lights probably won’t change your mind, but if you are, her work is sublime. She’s seriously one of the best (and most underappreciated, IMO) pop artists out there and has been putting out consistently great work for over a decade now.
All of her albums are excellent in their own different ways, but her most recent, PEP (which she references in the bridge of this song, by the way) is probably her most immediately accessible. Lots of bangers.
If you’re wanting something a bit more mellow and thoughtful instead, with a bit more depth than your standard radio-friendly pop, Little Machines fits the bill. It’s probably my favorite of hers, which is high praise, because I’ve genuinely adored every album she’s put out.
Siberia is a bit dubsteppy which can make it sound a little dated, but wow was it good on release. Skin and Earth meanwhile is a concept album that accompanies a comic that she wrote and illustrated herself. I thought the comic was alright, but the album itself is great and can (and does) absolutely stand on its own.
The Listening is hard to recommend now. It’s her debut, and it’s genuinely excellent for what it is, but she was young and new, so some of it can feel a little unpolished or even hokey. I still love it though, because it has a powerful earnestness to it that is what made me fall in love with her music in the first place. We’re now both a lot older and more developed, so those songs don’t hit the same way now as they once did, but at the time I first listened to it fourteen years ago, it was transformative.
Anyway, I say all of this not to pressure you or anyone else to listen to Lights. Instead, I’m just letting everybody know that, should they decide to dive into her discography, they’re likely to discover riches instead of disappointment. She’s awesome.
Lights has done a few features with other bands. The first time I heard her was on Crucify Me by Bring Me the Horizon from the album "There is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There is a Heaven...
Lights has done a few features with other bands. The first time I heard her was on Crucify Me by Bring Me the Horizon from the album "There is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There is a Heaven Let's Keep it a Secret". Really great album, first one that made me sit up and take Bring Me the Horizon seriously and Crucify Me is actually my favourite song on the album.
I picked up the GUNSHIP album after seeing @0x29A’s plug for it in Fresh Album Fridays and got stuck on this track immediately.
I was already a huge Lights fan, so hearing her with this kind of production is such a treat for me.
Aw, nice! Glad to hear I had a small part in that discovery :) Yeah the singles for this album had me hyped on this release- one after another was just super solid and the album lives up to the hype!
And I do need to check out Lights and other collabs/features with GUNSHIP and hadn't yet- so this is a great reminder to do so.
Well, except HEALTH- which is another band I highly recommend that has had collabs with GUNSHIP before.
HEALTH are great, caught them live here in Glasgow last year and my face was melted off, so heavy.
The Max Payne 3 soundtrack is incredible, where I first heard them, then Death Magic and then Vol 4, so good.
I’d never heard of GUNSHIP at all and didn’t even know Lights had a feature. I started up the album then went “hey, wait, I know that voice!” when I got to this song. It ended up being an unintentionally perfect recommendation. Thanks for the pointer!
If you’re not into pop music, Lights probably won’t change your mind, but if you are, her work is sublime. She’s seriously one of the best (and most underappreciated, IMO) pop artists out there and has been putting out consistently great work for over a decade now.
All of her albums are excellent in their own different ways, but her most recent, PEP (which she references in the bridge of this song, by the way) is probably her most immediately accessible. Lots of bangers.
If you’re wanting something a bit more mellow and thoughtful instead, with a bit more depth than your standard radio-friendly pop, Little Machines fits the bill. It’s probably my favorite of hers, which is high praise, because I’ve genuinely adored every album she’s put out.
Siberia is a bit dubsteppy which can make it sound a little dated, but wow was it good on release. Skin and Earth meanwhile is a concept album that accompanies a comic that she wrote and illustrated herself. I thought the comic was alright, but the album itself is great and can (and does) absolutely stand on its own.
The Listening is hard to recommend now. It’s her debut, and it’s genuinely excellent for what it is, but she was young and new, so some of it can feel a little unpolished or even hokey. I still love it though, because it has a powerful earnestness to it that is what made me fall in love with her music in the first place. We’re now both a lot older and more developed, so those songs don’t hit the same way now as they once did, but at the time I first listened to it fourteen years ago, it was transformative.
Anyway, I say all of this not to pressure you or anyone else to listen to Lights. Instead, I’m just letting everybody know that, should they decide to dive into her discography, they’re likely to discover riches instead of disappointment. She’s awesome.
Lights has done a few features with other bands. The first time I heard her was on Crucify Me by Bring Me the Horizon from the album "There is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There is a Heaven Let's Keep it a Secret". Really great album, first one that made me sit up and take Bring Me the Horizon seriously and Crucify Me is actually my favourite song on the album.
Whole album is fantastic. Loving the darker, heavier industrial vibe on this one.
Hell yes, more Gunship.