Friday, November 1, 2019

One-man dream pop project Light FM drops “Tourist” EP title track; 20-year anniversary release from producer Josiah Mazzaschi out Nov. 15th.

Jesus and Mary Chain, Built To Spill collaborator’s 14-song career-spanning compilation “Turn On The Light FM” also streaming everywhere now.

+++


Josiah Mazzaschi of Light FM as photographed by Jim Newberry

+++

PLAY, POST & SHARE



“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, Mazzaschi has tapped into the zeitgeist sans apology.” – Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters on “Tourist” by Light FM


+++

Light FM
“Tourist” EP
Nov. 15th, 2019
(Moonboot Records)
  

Track Listing:

01. Tourist (STREAM | MP3)
02. Dreamerz (feat. Brett Anderson of The Donnas)
03. Marzipan Summer
04. Horrible Friend

+++

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, premiered this week via PopMatters, 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 from “Tourist” lands today.

Josiah Mazzaschi of Light FM is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

+++

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

+++

Light FM | Links


+++

Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact


No comments: