The Mystery Lights - Too Much Tension - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 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. Hot on the heels of the InchToo Many GirlsInch/InchToo Tough To BearInch single, Wick Records (Daptone's new rock subsidiary) officially rolls out The Mystery Lights' debut LP, recorded at Daptone Records' House of Soul studio, in June 2016. Album Tracks 1. Intro 2. Follow Me Home 3. Flowers in My Hair, Demons in My Head 4. Too Many Girls 5. Without Me 6. Melt 7. Candlelight 8. 21 & Counting 9. Too Tough to Bear 10. Before My Own 11. What Happens When You Turn the Devil Down

Album Tracks 1. Mighty Fine & All Mine 2. Memories 3. Purgatory 4. In the Streets 5. Together Lost 6. Trouble 7. Sorry I Forgot Your Name 8. Can't Sleep Through the Silence 9. Cerebral Crack 10. Automatic Response 11. Don't Want No, Don't Need No 12. Snuck Out

Predatory Headlights was completed over the course of three years with the assistance of engineer and co-producer, Justin Perkins. Pitsch has often cited Perkins' involvement in early 2000's groups Yesterday's Kids and The Obsoletes as a heavy influence. Perkins also worked with Tenement on their 2011 offering, Napalm Dream, as well as acclaimed records by the likes of The Goodnight Loving, The Sugar Stems, and The Mystery Girls. The bulk of Predatory Headlights was written and recorded at BFG in Appleton, Wisconsin - Tenement's home and personal studio. The house was symbolically demolished within days of finishing the record, and in a fitting display of finality, three years of sweat and nightmares and beauty and dissonance returned to the soil and found it's way back into the water and woods with only this document to prove it ever even existed at all. Thanks to Don Giovanni Records, you hold the very document in your hands - Tenement's newest window into the nature of the human being and the complexity of life Predatory Headlights. Album Tracks 1. Theme of the Cuckoo 2. Crop Circle Nation 3. Dull Joy 4. Feral Cat Tribe 5. The Shriveled Finger 6. Harvest Time 7. Under the Storm Clouds 8. Ants + Flies 9. Garden of Secrecy 10. The Butcher 11. Whispering Kids 12. Curtains Closed 13. Why Are We Where We Are 14. You Keep Me Cool 15. Cold the Pavement Is 16. Heavy Odor 17. A Frightening Place 18. Licking a Wound 19. I'm Your Super Glue 20. Hive of Hives 21. The Dishwasher's Meal 22. Keep Your Mouth Shut 23. Foreign Phrase