Visit MXDWN
to see psychedelic new music video for “Horrible Friend,” shot in L.A.’s Echo
Park Neighborhood by Zoey Taylor and Lauren Rocket.
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Josiah
Mazzaschi of Light FM as photographed by Jim
Newberry
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MXDWN calls “Horrible
Friend” by Light FM “a brilliant
piece of laid-back psych-pop with lilting acoustic guitars in the chorus and a
droning, tremelo guitar lines blending with twinkling arpeggios in the chorus.”
“I wrote ‘Horrible
Friend’ shortly after getting sober,” says Light FM’s Josiah Mazzaschi.
It’s been the best thing that I’ve done for myself and for the people that I
love.”
MXDWN continues, “the video is shot around Echo Park in Los
Angeles and then ends in a cemetery. There are views of the park’s iconic
lotus, structures and views of the surrounding hillsides and the colorful
visual effects further adds to psychedelic tones of the track.”
See “Horrible
Friend” by Light FM at MXDWN here
or at the link below.
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“You’ve likely heard Josiah Mazzaschi’s music — if not from his passion project Light FM, then from his work producing Built to Spill and The Jesus and Mary Chain. The former artistic outlet is celebrating
twenty years of existence in 2019, sharing the joy by dropping a new EP. Before
Mazzaschi shares the full project
with the world, though, he’s giving us a second sneak preview with the buzzing
three-minute single ‘Dreamerz,’
which notably features Donnas
vocalist Brett Anderson.” Hear
it now at FLOOD or the link
below.
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LightFM-Dreamerz
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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
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Light FM
“Tourist” EP
Out Now
(Moonboot Records)
Track Listing:
01. Tourist (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Dreamerz (feat. Brett Anderson of The Donnas) (STREAM | MP3)
03. Marzipan Summer
04. Horrible Friend (VIDEO)
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Light FM | About
Los Angeles-based record producer and engineer Josiah Mazzaschi (Jesus and Mary Chain, Built
To Spill) celebrates the 20-year anniversary of his bedroom dream pop
project Light FM this year with the
release of the new EP “Tourist,” out
now.
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
recently via Buzzbands.la, along
with the single “Dreamerz,” a
collaboration with Brett Anderson of
The Donnas, which
can be heard via FLOOD, and “Horrible Friend” (see the video now at
MXDWN.)
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.
In addition to the latest EP, new fans of Light FM can be “tourists” through the
band’s catalog: 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 also out 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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