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The Mystery Lights
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Artist:
The Mystery Lights
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2004 saw a friendship bloom
between guitarists Mike Brandon and Luis Alfonso. With musical interests in
tact, the pair decided to join together to create their own version of rock
music. They spent most of that era
touring California before moving to New York in 2014. After numerous years of crafting their own
sound, and inspired by the 60’s movement and fellow rockers The Kinks, their
first release was the single “Too Many Girls”.
In an era when the city
kvetches that there are no good NYC bands, when half of the music scene has
split for sunny California, The Mystery Lights are an anomaly. Not only did these bold young men reverse the
direction - optimistically migrating east against the tide from the west coast,
but they also landed in the wormy apple to immerse themselves in the action and
diversity of New York City. This is
their 2016 debut full-length. “They
offer a splendid reaffirmation of the eternal verities of lo-fi psych-rock. The
brittle garage-punk of this debut positively seethes with trebly guitars, reedy
organs, waspish fuzzboxes and urgent drums, with singer Mike Brandon exploring
the ramifications of titles like ‘What Happens When You Turn The Devil Down’
and ‘Flowers In My Hair, Demons In My Head’ in tortuous, passionate manner.
Several songs echo noble antecedents, notably Sky Saxon & The Seeds – ‘21
& Counting’ is a dead ringer for ‘Pushin’ Too Hard’ - although the
intervening years have wrought unexpected changes in attitudes, as witness
Brandon’s angry blast in ‘Melt’ about being ‘so sick of being high’.” –
TheIndependent.co.uk “Fuzz guitar, vintage
Farfisa, hair-clutching bad-trip psychedelia and aggressive, bell-bottom-flared
sexuality – it’s 1966 all over again with the Mystery Lights, NYC’s ‘Nuggets’-Box-set-come-to-life
band. And yet while all the sounds are recognizable, none have gone stale. This
is by the best retro garage album I’ve heard in years, reinvigorating the art
of the Seeds, the Sonics, the 13th Floor Elevators and the Electric Prunes
with lust and swagger and bravado.” – BlurtOnline.com GREAT!!
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