Light of Words
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.
"Sit and Wait" Video - Recorded Live at the Fleece 12/05/07
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
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Background Design by Light of Words and Toby Wilson
Video By Corrosive Films - www.myspace.com/corrosivefilms
