Nightlands New Video
Nightlands’ David Hartley is in the creative pocket at the moment. On the heels of his lovely Secretly Canadian debut, Forget the Mantra, and at the precipice of Nightlands first-ever live engagements, Hartley gives us the All The Way 7″ accompanied here in a new video directed by Audrey Smith and featuring Hartley himself. It’s Forget the Mantra’s strange lil’ bro, doing all sorts of interesting, unknowable shit in his room all night long.
“All The Way” is an ode to pain and reinvention, a joyful noise about hopelessness. Written, recorded and mixed in one day. Like Jeff Lynne floating down Billy Joel’s River of Dreams on a drone raft. Its flipside, “Buggin Out,” absolutely comes from an obsession with Bo Hansson’s Lord of the Rings (1970), the epic Swedish instrumental masterpiece. The skeleton of the track was played live on Hartley’s Hammond 144, originally clocking in at almost 16 minutes of synth/organ madness. After some Casio/Korg overdubbing, the piece was chopped to the still-epic, seizure-enducing 6 minutes we have before us.
You can watch a new music video for “All The Way” below. The All The Way 7″ will be available at shows on Nightlands’ first tour, which starts tomorrow at Glasslands in Brooklyn.
“Unguarded, idyllic, and often pastoral, the songs are full of earthy instruments and layers of harmony that are refracted through watery reverb to excellent effect”
- THE NEW YORKER
“Dreams are often confusing, disturbing experiences comprised of inexplicable imagery and occurrences. It’s this ambiguous sensation– hovering in that netherworld between the foreign and the familiar, the comforting and the haunting– that Hartley successfully conjures on Forget the Mantra“-PITCHFORK
“Eerily disembodied vocals and melodies that swirl around like sprits in the ether. It’s the sound of the woozy period when dreams and wakefulness blur together, a period largely ineffable through the expression of language… Nightlands exquisetly captures this elusive feeling throughout this tantilizingly gorgeous record”- UNDER THE RADAR
“Nightlands… ambition forebodes a boundless future full of orchestras, choirs, and film scores”- AGIT-READER
TOUR DATES:
01/20 Brooklyn, NY- Glasslands w/ The Tony Castles, and Dustin Wong
01/22 Philadelphia, PA- The Ox w/ Here We Go Magic, and Ape School
01/25 Toledo, OH- Mickey Finn’s Pub
01/26 Chicago, IL- The Empty Bottle w/ YAWN, and Houses
01/27 Pontiac, MI- The Pike Room
