Pale Lights - Pale Lights - VINYL LP

Conceptually, Pale Spring attempts to reconcile contradictions in the human healing from, and feeling comforted by, depression and generational trauma. Harper Scott writes songs that relate Inchintensely personal accountsInch and Inchthe images that haunt my dreams.Inch DUSK abounds with wounds, breaks and bodies; characters yearn, make love, bare themselves. These songs have a dreamlike quality, existing outside of time; their simultaneous spareness, richness and languor belies the pair's intricate collaboration. InchSongwriting and producing are interconnected processes for me,Inch Harper Scott says. Often songs incorporate bits of old ones, as on album closer InchDark,Inch which revolves around an outtake from their sessions for CYGNUS. Here and throughout the record, Harper Scott elasticizes syllables InchGive me a space that I can call sacred,Inch she sings, and just as her harmonies suggest the song's chord progressions, the song suggests such a space.1. Safe 2. Please U 3. Bruise 4. Slow Motion 5. Highway 6. Crystalline 7. Dusk 8. Intact 9. Dripping 10. Pulled Apart 11. Delirium 12. Dark Album Tracks 1. Safe 2. Please U 3. Bruise 4. Slow Motion 5. Highway 6. Crystalline 7. Dusk 8. Intact 9. Dripping 10. Pulled Apart 11. Delirium 12. Dark

In the sway of a rural breeze, Hatcher-Williams' vocals soothe and enchant the listener on his self-titled debut, which recounts his odyssey from a child raised in a Virginia cult, to a burned out tech worker in New York, and then back to Virginia, happily married to his childhood friend. Throughout the album, he explores identity as it relates to where a person is from and evolves with where they live, and how that facet of self is further compounded by the amount of agency one has over where they call home. To some extent, Lamplight is about learning when to take the reins, and when to let go-discovering what parts of yourself should be pruned, so new branches can grow. Hatcher-Williams, born into a New Age community headquartered in southwest Virginia, spent his early years entrenched in art studies and playing in various bands, before studying design and programming at a local community college. A job opportunity led him to relocate to New York with his wife, where he would soon co-found a digital design agency, and his musical ambitions fell to the wayside. The stress of this demanding career and city life began to take a severe toll on his mental and physical health, as well as his marriage; he started dreaming of a simpler life with his partner and eventually parted ways with the company. It was a chance encounter with an old farmhouse in rural Virginia that instantly provided a much-needed sense of home, and led the unmoored pair to return to their native state. In the year between deciding he needed to move back and realizing it, Hatcher-Williams wrote and recorded what would become Lamplight, attempting to process and distill some of his experiences into songs.Though the album has moments that hint at the antique lace and creaking floorboards of traditional folk, Lamplight skews modern, in part thanks to Copeland's deft production. Hatcher-Williams met Copel

Pale Spring wrote and recorded CYGNUS in Baltimore, whose fertile music scene has seen acts like Lower Dens, Ami Dang and Beach House build rich, self-contained worlds of sound. CYGNUS expands on this foundation, with stately, smooth pop songs incorporating layered harmonies, glitches, and, on InchOld SoundsInch dog barks. Music runs in Harper Scott's family a classically trained musician herself, her grandfather studied at Juilliard under his uncle, who played for the New York Philharmonic. Scott's grandfather sang doo wop, and his influence paved the way for Scott to explore music; eventually, he taught himself how to sample. His accompaniment provides an underpinning for Harper Scott's vocals and instrumentals. Critics noticed CYGNUS when it first came out last year, with glowing reviews in Bandcamp, Tiny Mix Tapes and DAZED. American Dreams Records' vinyl reissues of CYGNUS and DUSK mark the first time they've been made widely available as physical media.1. Silence 2. Happening 3. Belongings 4. Forevermore 5. Carry Me Home / Want Me More 6. Guilt Trip 7. Old Sounds8. Quarantines Album Tracks 1. Silence 2. Happening 3. Belongings 4. Forevermore 5. Carry Me Home / Want Me More 6. Guilt Trip 7. Old Sounds 8. Quarantines