Lightning Bug – No Paradise (2024)

Review:
After releasing 2021’s Color of the Sky on Fat Possum, Lightning Bug’s Audrey Kang decided to put her next album out herself. That solitary spirit matches well with a record that was written during and immediately after a 4000-mile motorcycle trip from Nayarit, Mexico to NYC. No Paradise is a lonely but lovely record and doesn’t suffer one bit from not being made with a label’s help. Kang’s songs incorporate elements of folk, dreampop, shoegaze and electronic music, for music that has groove and sweep. There are moments, like on the windswept “Opus,” that recall “Possession” era Sarah McLachlan if she listened to more early-’90s UK indie guitar music. You can feel the road in these songs and while you might not want to listen to it exclusively on your next cross-country road trip, it would be good to keep No Paradise in constant rotation, especially near dusk. Lightning Bug recorded No Paradise in Arlington, Vermont, with a focus on self-sufficiency and autonomy. Beyond contributions from Allegra Krieger and Woody Ray (backing vocals on “The Withering” and additional production on “Morrow Song,” respectively), the band play, produce and engineer the entire album themselves, with mixing from Miley. Copeland even built the studio where they recorded it. — brooklynvegan.com



Track List:
01 - On Paradise
02 - The Quickening
03 - The Flowering
04 - The Withering
05 - Opus
06 - December Song
07 - Serenade
08 - Lullaby for Love
09 - I Feel
10 - Morrow Song
11 - Just Above My Head
12 - No Paradise


Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, indie-folk
Origin: New York, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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