WIRES & LIGHTS A Chasm Here And Now 2LP VINYL 2021
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Artist: WIRES & LIGHTS Title: A Chasm Here And Now
Format: 2LP Vinyl Year: 13.09.2021 Label: Wave Tension Tracklist: A1. Drive
A2. Swimming
A3. Anyone
A4. 24H
B1. Sleepers
B2. Cuts
B3. Controller:Resistor
C1. Dead To Us
C2. Electric
C3. Going, Going, Gone
D1. Mayday*
D2. Drive (Ash Code remix)*
D3. Swimming (The Foreign Resort remix)*
D4. Sleepers (Traitrs remix)*
* vinyl exclusive Info: "A Chasm Here And Now" is the long awaited debut album of Justin Stephens' (ex-Passion Play) current band WIRES & LIGHTS, with which the Berlin quartet redeems everything they announced at live shows and on the Pagan Love Songs Vol. 3 compilation in 2014 with an early demo version of "Swimming". After its initial CD release by Oblivion/SPV during fall 2019, Wave Tension Records will release the album on limited double vinyl (including unreleased track and remixes) in fall 2021.
Right from the off, the brilliant opener "Drive" leaves nothing to be desired in terms of thrilling, hymnic danceability: "Turn up your drive / ‘til you're racing ahead of the noise of life" is just epic! A grandiosely updated "Swimming" sustains the urgent sense of drive unconventionally, before "Anyone", one of the most gripping and sweeping mid-tempo ballads of recent years, changes down a gear. And that was just the beginning.
Every time you think you've grasped the band musically, they immediately prove you wrong with the next track. Beyond predictability and within a broad, but nonetheless navigable aesthetic corridor, Justin Stephens and his comrades-in-arms – Ralf Hünefeld on guitar and keyboards, Gabriel Brero on bass and Sebastian Hilgetag on drums – display with "A Chasm Here And Now" one thing above all: Songs of this caliber cannot possibly be created by beginners. What is so rich in content, so versatile but never arbitrary, and yet seems to flow so naturally, can only be the result of rich experience and many years of dedication. The high-quality production in Berlins Trixx Studios is the technical equivalent of the artistic premiere league in which "A Chasm Here And Now" plays.
In addition to pure listening pleasure, Justin's incomparable lyrics offer unpretentious depth in a manner that is rarely found. They inspire in their entirety just as they function as one-liner fragmented aphorisms ("reality stayed when your reason abandoned"). Thus WIRES & LIGHTS are the very embodiment of the enlightening message to which they owe their name: It's all there; you just have to help yourself.
And if you’re still in any doubt, listen to the conclusion of the album: "Going, Going, Gone” – this masterfully polished gem of a song, with its New Model Army-like bubbling structure, its genetic connection with Passion Play's "Running On Empty" and its epic deliverance will be a classic for all time that everyone always wants to hear.
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