"Light Of Words have crafted an album that soars and lilts its way into your heart, drawing you into intense, visceral territories conjured from the musings of their collective fingertips and throats. Pure aural pleasure."
unpeeled.net
"‘Those Left Behind’ is a fine soundtrack to the onset of the coldest season with [Chris] Dean’s tender tones providing the comforting words to keep away the wintry chills. Whilst it has plenty of commercial potential though, the Bristol band have achieved a level of subtlety to ensure they don’t fall into the levels of shallowness, which undermines the work of so many of their contemporaries."
The Weblog of Leonard's Lair
"Listening to this debut from Bristol-based post-rock troupe Light Of Words, you keep hearing undeniable strains of potential. Those Left Behind is a tight affair with some gripping and fragile instrumentation leading the way to a number of big choruses and explosions of noise....the band are capable of some beautiful, evocative music when they start each song; the melodies on So Calm Now, A Sound Will Guide You and the fragile, piano-led Stepping Through Shadows really grab you with real subtlety"
subba-cultcha.com
"Bristolian post rock, trip hop and shoegazing, the quintet’s full length debut is an impressive entrée... it’s at its best on the more shimmering, fragile and quivering numbers. Most notably January with its tinkling glockenspiel, Too Soon’s organ backed melancholic, mournful meditation on lost love, A Sound Will Guide You (where they sound like an icy meld of Sigur Ros and Snow Patrol) and the ebb and flow of the hymnal soaring So Calm Now which provides the album stand out."
Mike Davies, the Beat Fanzine
Discography
Those Left Behind Released 30 November 2009 ShopLast.fm
Since their arrival on the Bristol music scene in 2007, Light of Words have been delighting audiences with the staggering sonic spectacle that typifies their unique post-rock and shoegaze influenced sound. Their songs are of a fragile, delicate, mournful beauty, combining delicate layers of sound that gradually interweave and unfold before twisting into towering, cataclysmic crescendos.
The past year has been spent out of the spotlight and in the studio, but now they’re back with their greatest achievement yet: Those Left Behind. This powerful full-length album, released at the end of 2009 on Laser Ghost Recordings, combines evocative lyrics, chiming guitars and explosive drumbeats, inviting you into a world where music is everything and enveloping you until you’re firmly under the heady and intoxicating Light of Words spell.
2010 is set to be a busy year for Light of Words with plans to tour as well as record and release a second album.
Support
Bands that Light of Words have previously supported include The Lionheart Brothers, Kyte, Animal Kingdom, The Telescopes, Grammatics, Crippled Black Phoenix, LoveLikeFire, The Durutti Column, From Monument To Masses and Babel.
London continues to be hit by many Italian artists, especially those who, for content and tone, the ability and desire to assert itself outside the national borders: The case of the OJM, a band that has managed to earn a significant success in the heavy-pshyc Italian assets and intense live activity in the peninsula. On 17 and 18 March, the OJM return to the UK with two concerts in London, where the opportunity to present the songs will be recorded in April at the Red House Recording of Senigallia (Ancona) with producer Dave Catching (DESERT SESSION, THE QUEENS OF STONE AGE, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL / MONDO GENERATOR, MASTER OF REALITY). 17th March 2010 Monto Water Rats 328 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8BZ Switchboard, London, London and South East 18th March 201 Peter Parker’s r’n’r club Denmark Street Denmark Street, London
hello darlings how are things? hope its all going well...it HAS been forever. i sadly don't live in bristol anymore so that explains my long term absence...
christopher brother! anytime my friend... i look forward to hearing/seeing the finished product! could you send me one??? cannie make the gig unfortunately as im headig to barcelona!lovely!!!! good luck though! much love, sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
No idea what happened there - sorry! Thanks for sending us the album. We played Trip Up on the show at the weekend. Hope the gig goes swimmingly. Listen to BBC Bristol Introducing anytime via the iPlayer or listen again at www.bbc.co.uk/bristol
well thankyou, we needed a band picture but only one of was here, and that would of been rather egocentric to just have one person from the band in a band photo. so its someone else altogether. it was fun to do. see you tonight!
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