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"House of Light’s new single “Still Life” - an electric lament that typifies their propensity to the dark & melancholic in epic fashion. Lyrical themes run deceptively deep, pitching the clash of longing to return to a state of natural & human innocence in the face of the forbidden fruit of technology’s onslaught using archtypal Jungian imagery. The riffs that dot this dark & dreamy terrain seem familiar but near-overflowing in an echoey sonics. Fear & hope elope together on a dysphoric path, while objects of desire await frozen in time.
The band rarely played the song live, describing it as “musically too intense to pull together right now” but post-plague tours will return on all shores. House of Light are described as born In Berlin & raised in LA though the main writer moved from Melbourne, Australia.
HoL’s shows have been attended by the likes of Frank Black of the Pixies & Andy Rourke of the Smiths who interviewed them on East Village Radio. The band flits between formations with member in several cities, as liquid & versatile as their music. Many of their songs work as well in violin-duets or solo, yet their domain sits firmly in some new romantic vision, likewise frozen in time but with a modern twist. On a good night live they croon & explode in their own night, often improvising on some of their free-form pieces.
The single foreshadows their album “Come Into My Night”, an array of synth & guitar drive songs, often catchy always elaborate sonically."
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released January 7, 2022
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Written by: J M de Vries
Produced by: Martin Fiedler
Published by: Dark Escapes Publishing Pty Ltd
Distributed by: Dark Escapes Music Pty Ltd
Recorded in: Klangbild Studios in Berlin, Germany
Bass : Mark Kinchin
Drums : Chris Hughes