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Lovetempo returns with a debut full-length 'There Is A Light.' The album charts a journey from heartbreak and self-doubt into healing, connection, and self-acceptance. It is Mattie Safer's most personal and expansive work to date-a record about rediscovering your inner light and refusing to give up on love. 'There Is A Light' is about persevering through personal difficulties-heartbreak, burnout, late-night regrets,' Safer says. 'The idea that there is a truth and beauty to myself, my spirit, my love, my dreams-and that I can dig through all the noise, find it, and share it with the world.' Sonically, the album expands Lovetempo's palette. It builds on the electronic soul and 70s-inspired dance music of earlier releases but ventures into stranger, more emotionally and sonically adventurous terrain. It opens with the disco burner 'The Right Way,' setting the tone with it's plaintive cry for a love both real and true. 'Never The Same' and 'But I Do' twist club music into warped, jazzy shapes, while 'Thinking About You' and 'By Your Side' tap into the soft edges of Latin groove, heartbreak funk, and ambient soul. The title track, 'There Is A Light,' arrives as an electronic gospel anthem-spare, joyful, and defiant in it's optimism. 'I spent a long time in the wilderness after leaving The Rapture and going solo,' Safer reflects. 'I got married and divorced. I signed a record deal, only to have the tag sit on my recordings for four years before eventually dropping me. I was making all these changes-cleaning up my life, studying songwriting and vocal technique-but I wasn't getting anywhere, because my self-image hadn't caught up. I was still anxious, still talking down to myself, still putting myself in bad situations. Lovetempo was the first thing I made that I really felt 100% confident in, because it truly felt like me, bringing all my musical personalities into one pla
