New four-song “Tourist” EP feat. Brett Anderson of The
Donnas (Nov. 15th) to be preceded by career-spanning comp. “Turn On
The Light FM” (Oct. 25th).
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Josiah Mazzaschi of Light FM as photographed by Jim
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“Friends
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“Mercy” will be re-released as part of the Light FM career-spanning compilation Turn
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Light FM | About
Los Angeles-based record producer and engineer Josiah Mazzaschi (Jesus and Mary Chain, Built
To Spill) will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of his bedroom dream pop
project Light FM this year with the
release of a new EP “Tourist” on Nov. 15th.
The four-song non-stop bop is the first new Light FM music in five years and
features the EP’s title track as its first single, along with the upcoming
single “Dreamerz,” a collaboration
with Brett Anderson of The Donnas.
Light FM was most recently seen on tour in the US and UK as a
trio while supporting its previous EP, 2015’s “Pointless,” sharing stages with Smashing Pumpkins, The
National, and Ra Ra Riot along
the way.
Even though Mazzaschi
is back to recording solo now, the “Tourist”
EP represents a new, collaborative approach to his songwriting, with half of the EP comprised of co-writes.
“This was the first time I have ever collaborated with
other songwriters for Light FM,” Mazzaschi says of the “Dreamerz” single written with Anderson and the title track with
Pittsburgh-based songwriter, Alex Aleco.
When Mazzaschi
started Light FM while living in
Chicago, the aim was to shroud what he calls his “pretty depressing lyrics” in
upbeat music and melodies. After relocating to the west coast in 2005, and
releasing several albums, Mazzaschi
perfected that style, so much so that other artists began to seek out his
production touches.
As Mazzaschi became an in-demand producer – recent clients at his The Cave Studio include Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder’s new project Night Dreamer, Deap Vally collaborations with The
Flaming Lips, Jamie Hince of The Kills, and Andy Rourke of The Smiths’
new project Blitz Vega – his Light FM recordings slowed, but the
“luxurious, atmospheric textures” (The
Big Takeover) of those songs were still in demand.
“Mazzaschi
never met a pop hook he couldn’t dirty up a little bit,” said L.A.’s most important
music discovery website Buzzbands,
and Mazzaschi continues to prove
that on the “Tourist” EP.
New fans of Light
FM can be “tourists” through the band’s history prior to the release of the
“Tourist” EP on Nov. 15th. A 14-song compilation “Turn On The Light FM,” culled from five albums and two EPs
released throughout the band’s 20-year career, will be available via all
streaming services on Oct. 25th.
The title track from “Tourist” lands
as a single on Nov. 1st.
“Tourist,” the new EP by Los Angeles-based trio Light FM arrives on Nov. 15th, preceded by the
title track on Nov. 1st.
The band’s career-spanning compilation Turn On The Light FM is out on Oct. 25th.
Josiah
Mazzaschi of Light FM is available for interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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Light FM
Turn
On The Light FM
Oct. 25th, 2019
(Moonboot Records)
Track Listing:
01. Turn On The Light FM
02. 16 Below
03. Save The Drama
04. The High
05. Black Magic Marker
06. IJWUTBM
07. Friends Aren’t Friends (VIDEO)
08. Problems of Our Own
09. Thrift Store Clothes
10. Mercy (VIDEO)
11. Voices In My Head
12. Let Go
13. PTSD
14. Pointless
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Light FM
“Tourist” EP
Nov. 15th, 2019
(Moonboot Records)
Track Listing:
01. Tourist
02. Dreamerz (w/ Brett Anderson of The Donnas)
03. Marzipan Summer
04. Horrible Friend
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Light FM | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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