Ultra Lights - Pleasure's All Yours - VINYL LP

Fortune favors the brave. And lordy, nobody has been more rewarded than I have by stumbling into the brilliantly crafted world of Ultra Lights. It started innocently enough when I witnessed their second show, appearing on a stacked bill that included locals Bizner and Arbor Labor Union and the Dutch phenom band Lewsberg. After their opening set, I went up to guitarist/vocalist John Robinson and asked if their closing song was a cover, because it sounded so dang familiar. An earworm for the ages, if you will. Yeah, it was that annoyingly catchy. Maybe was it a Fang song? That Sunday night signaled the beginning of my torrid love affair with Ultra Lights.Ultra Lights' first was InchNostalgia.Inch At the time it was unquestionably their best song. InchNostalgia will eat the youngInch? Are you serious? That still stops me in my tracks. The two subsequent singles were equally all killer, no filler. The six-song 12Inch that collects all three singles is equally spotless. I've got zero notes. The band has played New York (including a WFMU session!), Chicago, Nashville, and anywhere else that'll take them. Left in their wake are fans like me who are convinced that Ultra Lights is their new favorite band. Enter Pleasure's All Yours. A record that, by any reasonable metric, is a stone-cold masterpiece. Not just compared to records by other bands in Georgia or, more broadly, the South. No, I mean that in the great history of recorded music, this is up there with the greats Loveless, Funhouse, Is This Real?, Bandwagonesque. Pleasure's All Yours is a record that came out of the forge perfectly cast. A prestige effort. This record is honest t'god special. Become properly acquainted with Pleasure's All Yours. Listen to it. Study it. And let me just get this out of the way John Robinson is a songwriting genius with derisively brilliant nihilistic lyrics. He's a mindful postgrad o