lightheaded Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/lightheaded/ Focusing on the best new music made by female-identifying and non-binary artists. Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:54:12 +0000 en hourly 1 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SMM-Logo-Black-1-32x32.png lightheaded Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/lightheaded/ 32 32 Lightheaded shares new single ‘Moments Notice’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/new-music/lightheaded-shares-new-single-moments-notice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightheaded-shares-new-single-moments-notice Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=9023 Lightheaded are free-ranging students of pop, drawing as much from 60s Brill Building song writers as they do from later 60s folk/pop developments and 80s DIY pop. New single ‘Moments Notice’ is a killer tune, rhythmic and catchy in a way that hearkens back to The Jam & early Comet Gain, spiked with soft-pop DNA

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]]> Lightheaded are free-ranging students of pop, drawing as much from 60s Brill Building song writers as they do from later 60s folk/pop developments and 80s DIY pop. New single ‘Moments Notice’ is a killer tune, rhythmic and catchy in a way that hearkens back to The Jam & early Comet Gain, spiked with soft-pop DNA that should make fans of folks like the Free Design swoon. Another brilliantly fresh and distinctive example of why Lightheaded are one of the most talked-about indiepop bands in ages.

“‘Moments Notice’ is a song about social energy, or our lack there of sometimes. The lyrics are all about being ready to leave anywhere in public at the drop of a hat because you’d rather just be home alone with that one person you’d really rather spend your time with,” says Stephen Stec.

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]]> Lightheaded announce debut LP Combustible Gems; share new single/video ‘Dawn Hush Lullaby’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/news/lightheaded-announce-debut-lp-combustible-gems-share-new-single-video-dawn-hush-lullaby/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightheaded-announce-debut-lp-combustible-gems-share-new-single-video-dawn-hush-lullaby Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=8667 Lightheaded are, simply, a great pop group. Their songs are full of melody and harmony, are bittersweet and memorable, familiar yet original. Their sound is a perfect mix of jangling guitars — featuring Sarah Abdlebarry’s exquisite, tasteful, but punchy Gretsch lead played over Stephen Stec’s Rickenbacker chime — anchored to singer Cynthia Rickenbach’s Hofner Violin

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]]> Lightheaded are, simply, a great pop group. Their songs are full of melody and harmony, are bittersweet and memorable, familiar yet original. Their sound is a perfect mix of jangling guitars — featuring Sarah Abdlebarry’s exquisite, tasteful, but punchy Gretsch lead played over Stephen Stec’s Rickenbacker chime — anchored to singer Cynthia Rickenbach’s Hofner Violin bass, which sounds like the bass on Michel Polnareff’s first LP.

Their debut LP Combustible Gems – is an LP about a band finding their sound, exploring notes, chords, and melody and making uncannily great music along the way. First single ‘Dawn Hush Lullaby’ features an electric folk-pop sensibility that starts like a waltz, but goes into Greenwich Village pop time, like a sweet Norma Tanega tune. The album drops May 17 via Slumberland.

Stephen says of the track: “I didn’t think of the title ‘Dawn Hush Lullaby,’ I found it. Awhile back, I had fallen for someone with a really lovely voice who lived far away so we would be texting for hours, but I could read her messages in her voice and replay our conversations in my head. I was alone one night, scrolling on Tumblr, when I saw a post from 1934, where Wilfred J Funk listed the ten most beautiful words in the English language. The first three? Dawn. Hush. Lullaby. And that’s just how her voice sounded.”

Combustible Gems:

  1. Always Sideways
  2. Dawn Hush Lullaby
  3. Moments Notice
  4. Still Sitting Sunday
  5. Bright Happy Girls
  6. Hugging Horizons
  7. You and Your Mother
  8. Because of You

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