This weekend the Australian Group of Art-Rock Floodlights arrives in our country. They will be specifically on Friday, September 19 in the VOL room in Barcelona and on Saturday, September 20 at the Wurlitzer of Madrid. Tickets are available.
The group will review successes of its two previous, usual albums of its repertoire, such as ‘Small Town Pub’ or ‘Wide Open Land’. Of course, the songs of his new album, ‘Underneath’, published this year will not be missing.
In it we find echoes of post-punk very linked to Joy Division, only with a section of winds that approaches Belle & Sebastian. Even the video of ‘Cloud Away’, for example, is openly bright, surrounded by fields and flowers, and seasoned with the beautiful choirs of Sarah Hellyer, which have aroused comparisons successful with cranberries.
The Floodlights stuck is manifested in singles edited during the last year as ‘Buoyant’, in whose video they submerge in water as in the promotional photos of this album; or ‘Can You Feel It’, which we select as a song of the day today.
Released as a single in advance of ‘Underneath’ last fall, ‘Can You Feel It’ has become one of the fundamental hymns of Floodlights. With that fantastic section of winds already mentioned, the chorus is immersed in anguish in the persistent chorus “I am on the edge of nothing”, while the stanzas fear the unknown. The choirs give hope on this track too.
The group has explained that the letters came out catarically, very quickly, and that this is transmitted on the subject and in the own way in which it never is missing in its repertoire, where it usually sounds towards the middle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my2a5qdlt_e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne-zro1Solc
