London Plane

BRIGHT BLACK is not a private collection, it's the contrarian to the song-book by lap top or acoustic guitar. The songs came as an onslaught; forceful, and direct by a tight group of six who were at once confronting the ascension of villains (you know who) and the fading of heroes (Bowie, Stephen Hawking to name two). BRIGHT BLACK re-acquaints you with the threat of imminent cultural, social, political, and ecological devastation then asks, do you feel the call to rise as we do, take on where our heroes left off? If so, turn it up, dance with us while you listen.

Rejecting a culture of me-first indulgence, BRIGHT BLACK is a pulsing, relentless, hook-filled avant-rock study in context and contradictions -- snarling while disco, ruminative while dancey, fogs of sweetness becoming venom, melancholy becoming hope, with bass-bruising grooves over lush textures, at once nodding to the spaghetti western and British post-punk goth anthems.

Though the intricacies of the album were developed methodically over most of 2019, the identity of the songs were written quickly during intense sessions which followed listening bursts from their sonic forebears (Kate Bush, Bauhaus to name a couple) serving to form the mood for the evening. If the song wasn't dangerous, vital, the group moved on. Thus, the BRIGHT BLACK album is a collection of songs that the band believes reflect the lightning. They’re as willful, barbed, and hopeful as they were in minute one when the spirit first showed up.