For booking or anything band related email Jim at: lightpollutionmusic@gmail.com
Influences
very sudden, discrete periods of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems, discomfort, and difficulties with spatial orientation
We are really into reverb, tape machines, anaolg synthesizers, tambourines, computers, guitars, guitars, combining hi-fi and lo-fi tracking, our voices, Phil Spector, noise, reverb, delay, and reverb.
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SOME RECENT PRESS:
"Light Pollution, the band, is much more benign in its swirling, hypnotic and alternately sweetly melodic and unsettlingly disorienting washes of reverb, analog synthesizers, clattering percussion and lo-fi noise.
Originally formed by vocalist and bandleader Jim Cicero and his drummer-pal Matt Evertt [CQ] in DeKalb when Cicero was attending Northern Illinois University, the group, which expands to a quartet onstage, has become a much-buzzed fixture on the Chicago club scene, thanks to its mix of vintage '90s shoegazer psychedelia and more currently hip freak folk a la Grizzly Bear. What's more, it's beginning to garner attention throughout the Midwest as it tours to build anticipation for a forthcoming full-length album." - JIM DEROGOTIS - CHICAGO SUN TIMES & NPR'S SOUND OPINIONS - OCTOBER 09
"More recently, their lo-fi, psych-pop-infused, layered and occasionally distorted instrumentation and vocals could fit in with contemporaries such as Grizzly Bear or a scaled-back Polyphonic Spree (Witchcraft), but other times they might compare closer to a Castanets or maybe a mangled Sufjan Stevens (Reflection)" - MY OLD KENTUCKY BLOG - AUGUST 09
"Seriously, what do you guys do in there?" - DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT - MAY 09
"Light Pollution has a very ambient sound and is the perfect band for those in audience who will be ingesting hallucinogenic drugs." - THE BRICK - SUNY - PURCHASE, NY - APRIL 09
"The lead singer's voice resembles David Byrne's in its lullabyish glory" - RADIO FREE CHICAGO - BLOGSPOT - MARCH 09
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Light Pollution EP - Vinyl & CD Package - $10 (+ $2 shipping)
This is our first record, a few still available, only 500 pressed.
LIGHT POLLUTION has played with bands including: THE DODOS, THE CONSTANTINES, CLOUD CULT, HEALTH, THE STARLIGHT MINTS, THE COOL KIDS, TELEPATHE, THE SMOKING POPES, NOAH AND THE WHALE, THE PILLOWS, WOODEN WAND, ANATHALLO, PHOSPHORESCENT, THE OCTOPUS PROJECT, EXTRA GOLDEN, FILM SCHOOL, INDIAN JEWELRY, HEADLIGHTS, MURDER BY DEATH, WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE, SOMEONE STILL LOVE YOU BORIS YELSTIN, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, LANGHORNE SLIM, DAVID BAZAN (of PEDRO THE LION), AU, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS, MT. ST. HELEN'S VIETNAM BAND, MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO's, STREET LIGHT MANIFESTO, MARIA TAYLOR (of AZURE RAY) and DRAKE (Yes, that Drake, "Best I Ever Had" Drake)
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Hey everyone. This Saturday August 15th GOLD will be playing a special, awesome show with two of our favorite out of town bands: Cartilage Party(Milwaukee) and Manic Zamboni(outside Min). These bands are both pretty young...the kids in Manic aren't even legal drinking age yet, but they rock hard and are such great people. Oh yeah and also this awesome band Bad Cop from Nashville who we are excited to see. Please come out this Saturday to Hotti Biscotti(3545 W. Fullerton) and welcome them to Chicago!!
