Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Los Angeles by way of Chicago producer Josiah Mazzaschi follows-up 20 years of Light FM w/ all-new EP feat. Brett Anderson of The Donnas.

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.


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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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