Lavendine painted ‘City Lights’ as a neon soaked alt-pop love song to coming home

The US-based sister duo Lavendine open their sophomore LP, Deep Blue, with City Lights, a crescendo-rich electro pop rock earworm that shows exactly how far their sound has stretched since the days of Open Up a Window and Rapture. Lavendine blurred alt-pop’s past, present and future within Deep Blue, and City Lights sets that tone immediately, mapping the emotional skyline of finally landing where your heart has been loitering for years. From the neon streams of synths that nod to the playful polyphony of the 80s to the fervent empowerment that defined the 90s indie era and the glossy rush of contemporary dance pop, it is all written into the blueprints of the affectingly uplifting euphoria of City Lights. There is just enough sadness threaded through the vocal lines to justify the aural ecstasy that lifts you out of the pensive lyrical reflections on distance, belonging and the ache that builds when a place lives inside you for too long. Harmonised to the nines through layered vocals that move as a single force with the production, and with subversive twists to keep the rhythms eager for the next melodic wave of tension and release, City Lights is a bittersweet love […] The post Lavendine painted ‘City Lights’ as a neon soaked alt-pop love song to coming home appeared first on A&R Factory.

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The US-based sister duo Lavendine open their sophomore LP, Deep Blue, with City Lights, a crescendo-rich electro pop rock earworm that shows exactly how far their sound has stretched since the days of Open Up a Window and Rapture. Lavendine blurred alt-pop’s past, present and future within Deep Blue, and City Lights sets that tone immediately, mapping the emotional skyline of finally landing where your heart has been loitering for years. From the neon streams of synths that nod to the playful polyphony of the 80s to the fervent empowerment that defined the 90s indie era and the glossy rush of contemporary dance pop, it is all written into the blueprints of the affectingly uplifting euphoria of City Lights. There is just enough sadness threaded through the vocal lines to justify the aural ecstasy that lifts you out of the pensive lyrical reflections on distance, belonging and the ache that builds when a place lives inside you for too long. Harmonised to the nines through layered vocals that move as a single force with the production, and with subversive twists to keep the rhythms eager for the next melodic wave of tension and release, City Lights is a bittersweet love […]

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