Known for work with legends (Jesus and Mary Chain) to upstarts (Night Dreamer), Mazzaschi’s
own evolution can be heard
now on career-spanning comp.
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Josiah
Mazzaschi of Light FM as photographed by Jim
Newberry
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“Cars-meets-Weezer-meets-Rentals crunch and fuzzed-out pop hooks... Alternately buzzing and
shimmering, the title track comes to life in the video.” – Kevin Bronson of Buzzbands.la
“With buzzing guitars, angelic vocals and choruses
that rise to majestic heights… Speaking to contemporary frustrations about
gentrification and becoming an alien in the place you've long called home.” – Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LightFM-Tourist
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Light FM
“Tourist” EP
Nov. 15th, 2019
(Moonboot Records)
Track Listing:
01. Tourist (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Dreamerz (feat. Brett Anderson of The Donnas)
03. Marzipan Summer
04. Horrible Friend
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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 and video, premiered
this week via Buzzbands.la, 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, is out now. The title track and video from “Tourist” are also both streaming now.
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
Out Now
(Moonboot Records)
Streaming Link:
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 | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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