Bright Light Bright Light
“You Seem To Change Your Mind In A Heartbeat”
6 months ago
Bright Light Bright Light released his brilliant new single ’Disco Moment’ this week. The track is yet another slice of gorgeously layered pop fantasticalness and is a delicious a precursor to his gloriously titled forthcoming album ‘Make Me Believe In Hope’ due in early 2012.
The rather splendid thing about Rod is the way in which he tells a tale, weaving his thoughtful and unique perspectives throughout his music together with his refreshingly honest and poetic musings, which create a heady mix of heartfelt melodies and sentiments which envelope the listener with each listen.
On the surface, ‘Disco Moment’ sounds like a simple feel good track, until repeated listens reveal a rare truth and universal beauty, which is what makes Rod’s music so satisfying, the way in which the euphoric and anthemic feel to the music is almost eclipsed by the devastating and heartbreaking narrative of the lyric.
‘Disco Moment’ plays out as a pre-break-up anthem, with lyrics with encompass the desperation of clinging on and the painful acknowledgement that is is the end “you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that cracks are showing”. The vocal is completely gorgeous as with all of Rod’s work, tender, emotive and knowing… showing that he is one of the finest and most fascinating male popstars of the past 10 years.
‘Disco Moment’ is available to download now from all good digital retailers including iTunes and Amazon. The full EP with remixes and a b-side will be released on 19th September.
The track has also spawned a magnificent t-shirt with the lyric ‘You Make It So Hard’ emblazoned across the front – you can see it and order one by clicking here.
Love, ‘Love Part II’
1 year ago
This week Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas) releases his first real, actual, proper single ‘Love Part II’ and it’s rather brilliant too!
‘Love Part II’ is a cracking, sophisticated pop record from it’s euphoric beats and whooshing sounds to its impressive hooks and sing-a-long chorus. The track was produced by the incredibly ace and lovely Andy Chatterley.
The single is released via Popjustice Hi-Fi and is avilable to download from all good digital retailers including iTunes and Amazon (the three track EP is only £1.69 there bargain hunters). The EP is also available as a CD and can be bought from Amazon. Marvelous!
You can’t beat a good old FREE download and Rod is very generous with free downloads (recap here), you can get the excellent b-side ‘Cry At Films’ from Popjustice Hi-Fi by clicking here.
Finally, before you all disappear in a download frenzy, Bright Light Bright will support Ellie Goulding on her forthcoming UK tour, so make sure you head along to see him!
My Eyes, My Eyes, My Beautiful Eyes!
1 year ago
Rod Thomas aka Bright Light Bright Light first caught our eyes and ears back in January when he duetted with the gloriously exceptional Nerina Pallot on a cover of the Prince classic ‘When Doves Cry’ during the uStream ‘I Don’t Want To Go Out Sessions’.
Since then, we’ve been keeping an eye on him (in a non-stalker like way OBV) via Twitter (we rather enjoy the local ‘caff’ related Tweets) and on MySpace and his music is very good indeed!
You can get your hands on two free tracks from his blog – one of them is a demo called ‘Blueprint’ and the other is a cover of the gorgeous Fleetwood Mac track ‘Landslide’, his version also happens to be gorgeous too!
Yesterday, to celebrate the launch of his new official and proper website, he released a FREE single called ‘A New Word To Say’ which, you can download by creating an account/profile. The track is spectacularly addictive… you can give it a go by clicking here to visit his website.