Oceansize The Mars Volta Arcade Fire The Cooper Temple Clause (R.I.P.) Mono Sonic Youth Bright Eyes Tool Radiohead Jeff Buckley Mogwai Bloc Party Godspeed! You Black Emperor Elbow Queens of the Stone Age Sigur Ros My Bloody Valentine Cups of Tea.
Music hasn’t lost its magic. Have you ever said a word over and over? Over and over and over until it loses the original meaning with which it was associated?
Music is everywhere. Almost every second of every day filled with music, not often by choice.
Five young men nestled in the South-West of England have searched for something beyond distortion, power-chords and angst. Something beyond a background. Something of meaning and import.
There is a unity of purpose. A meeting of minds. A clarity of vision. Music should be a spectacle, an event.
A mix of the old and the new. Nothing is wasted. Glockenspiels, vintage guitars and amplifiers sit side by side with laptops and digital effects.
Songs of fragile, delicate, mournful beauty twist into cataclysmic crescendos.
Press and Reviews
"More epic than a Lord of the Rings box-set"
Hellon Hill, Moles Club reviewer
"Made up of tracks old and new, Light of Words have managed to craft something that flows seamlessly in an almost conceptalbum style. There is no pointless stopping and starting: this is unrelenting brilliance." -
Sam Bonham, Epigram reviewer
"Occasionally Light of Words burst into riffage that can surely only come from metal roots, but before long they'll be delicately strumming over xylophones and the sound of electronic waves lapping against the shore. Perhaps that is the true wonder of these songs – at times you could be listening to many different bands all at the same time, pooling their resources to create one glorious whole. I'm not sure I really have a criticism of this CD at all."
Dave Urwin, livemusicscene.co.uk
"they wring out every last bleeding tear of intensity in your half heart..if you aren't with them they drag you there. They do this by beginning the guitar sound low and tight and crush you under the wave of incessantly high pitched chime. Fever! All of it colossal and unavoidably well done! If they are Light on Words they are heavy on emotive manipulation via sonic guitar shifts! "
Miss Gardiner, Decode Magazine
"Light Of Words were the last band on and the best one of the evening. Guitar, bass, drums and a very animated frontman" -
Ed Hutchinson, Moles Club reviewer
"A cross between a psychedelic Led Zeppelin and a more restless Cooper Temple Clause, Light Of Words are a four piece who make such a bold collective noise you’d have thought it was coming from an orchestra. Although based in Bristol – Chris Dean, Jim Rylatt, Kieran Spriggs and Ben Woodcock prove with their debut EP, ‘Executive Order 66,’ that they don’t intend on staying there for long."
Jason Gregory, GigWise.com reviewer
Contacts
Email: lightofwords@hotmail.co.uk
Background Design by Light of Words and Toby Wilson
Thanks very mooch mate, rest will be up and out there real soon...it's got a bit more of an upbeat vibe to this one,and we're ready with the 3rd as well...just the small matter of recording it now! Keep us posted on the launch of your CD too won't ya.
Big thanks for being such great session guests this week. It was good to finally meet you.
We'll be broadcasting the session on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am (repeated on Sunday 1-4am). Hear it “live” or online on the i-Player anytime in the 7 days after broadcast, there’s a link on our myspace profile.
Why hello LoW. Tis James from PostWarSpain here, remember them?
this is my new band down at southampton, you should totally have a listen. Stuff is sounding awesome, particularly the twilight versions. You guys got any new recordings in the pipeline? i remember a few awesome awesome new songs when i saw you last summer.
Hope things are good with you. We’re playing "Hold On, Eyes Up" and plugging your upcoming Start The Bus gig on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am (repeated on Sunday 1-4am). Hear it “live” or online on the i-Player anytime in the 7 days after broadcast, there’s a link on our myspace profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
Dharmata are currently sitting around at Dan's house for the next few weeks playing music. We wont be appearing live any-where else. If you want to be involved with this event tickets are availble from "Pub-talk" promotions or reply "here" Draft-Paks are also welcome.
Really like your stuff, can really see the Radiohead influence. Hope you like our song? You can find more at Last FM including some you can download for free (http://www. last. fm/music/Mr+Bones+And+The+Dreamers). We should be down in bristol in April, hope you can come along. In the meantime, here’s a snippet from our single released this April.
Come to Chicago Rock Cafe...Bristol Thursday 5th February. It's on the Waterfront, you'll see it. Electric and acoustic bands, then onto then club Oceana afterwards.
Just letting you know that we played "1000 Year War" again & plugged your upcoming Louisiana gig on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Sunday morning just gone. Sorry we couldn’t let you know earlier but you can still hear it anytime this week using the link on our myspace profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
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