Best Song Ever (This Week): Eat Lights Become Lights' "Bound for Magic Mountain"

Best Song Ever (This Week): Eat Lights Become Lights' "Bound for Magic Mountain":

Dunno much about the cumbersomely named Eat Lights Become Lights, but they have a fab new album titled Heavy Electrics out now on England’s Rocket Girl Records. They’re an LA/London trio led by Neil Rudd, and their list of influences should excite people with refined taste: Neu, Loop, Kraftwerk, Twelve, Holy Fuck, Glenn Branca, Miles Davis, Pete Kember, Michael Rother, Cluster, Harmonia. I can get behind those musicians.
The lead-off track, “Bound for Magic Mountain,” recalls the relentless, awe-inspiring, maximalist space-rock ascension of Holy Fuck. That is a rare commodity these days, so cherish it wherever you can find it. The rest of Heavy Electrics cruises, soars, and hovers in spine-tingling krautrock/kosmische climes, employing plenty of mantric, motorik rhythms, sweetly FX'd guitars, and celestial synthesizer motifs in familiar yet non-stale ways. Some formulas are simply superior to others, and spinning variations off of them can still result in exhilarating music decades after the templates have been set.
I'll be keeping close tabs on Eat Lights Become Lights—and encouraging them to change their name, as well.
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