VIDEO: Peaking Lights - Amazing & Wonderful

This should need no introduction for you: The greatest track from the album of the year.

Sonic Router: Peaking Lights - 936

Here's something I've had in the works for a couple of weeks, but sat on until the day it actually happened, which is now. I am amazed excited to be part of the new revamp of the excellent electronic/dub/beats blog Sonic Router - not so easily defined any more, as they expand their remit to include sounds from farther out from a wider group of writers then the three who started it up, which includes me!

My first review went up this morning, for Peaking Lights incredible new record 936 on Not Not Fun.

Here's a bit, full review HERE:

"The third track is potentially the highlight, dealing in the most sensual sonic experimentation of the record; the bobbing bottom end of 'Amazing and Wonderful' is sprinkled with soft feedback ringing out in fading ripples of delay, echo heavy guitar vibrations and an intimate tapestry of muted arpeggios descend down melody lines that cross each other like dancing lovers. What made Imaginary Falcons such a warming and beatific experience is blushed through this one track, and it's soporific euphoria that transcends all that came before it."

Download: Peaking Lights - Tiger Eyes (Laid Back) via GvsB

VIDEO: Peaking Lights - All the Sun That Shines

Here's the offical video for Peaking Lights' All the Sun That Shines taken from their 936 album, due out tomorrow on Not Not Fun.

A video for this track appeared a couple of weeks ago from someone called 100% Silk - it was a really beautiful transclucent thing, very light and slight. I had it queued up to post, but it disappeared and hasn't resurfaced. It's a shame that's gone, I emailed Silk about it, but no reply.  Strange happenings out there in Vimeoland.  Now the same song has a new video, a totally different creation, directed by Amanda Brown and Ben Shearn that pulls in a lot of Brown's obsessions with reggae and dub and the associations emphasise the island details from Peaking Lights sound. It's a good thing focussing on the bass and rhythm elements to this bands music, once you lock in to those all the microscopic detail around them pours into your ears.  That's pretty much a rule of music listening anyway, but it pays to repeat it every now and then.

A behind-the-scenes video of the making of this video, hand-crafted animations and home movies will premiere on NNF, or somewhere around teh interwebs in the next week or so.

Peaking Lights Video on Vice TV

Vice TV/VBS' new SOUND BUILDER series started last week with a video following Peaking Lights around on their tour. Amazing scenes from the band that made Imaginary Falcons, one of our Top 5 albums of 2009.

Visit the site over HERE, or just watch it here (but I did leave a nice and insightful response to a misguided commenter, which you'll obviously want to go and read):



Here's the Vice intro:

"We travel to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear. We watch as husband and wife prepare for tour by paring their studio down to the bare essentials needed to produce Peaking Lights’ distinctive sound.
While we were hanging out, we got a peek into Aron’s completely untechnical, yet highly rigorous process of Frankensteining long forgotten consumer electronics. Using the most unassuming hunks of wood, metal, and plastic, Peaking Lights produce surprising and highly personal results."