Pretty Lightning share 'Gewgaw For Beginners' and announce new album 'Dust Moves' out July 29 on Fuzz Club
Saarbrücken, Germany-based psych-blues duo Pretty Lightning are today announcing their new album ‘Dust Moves’, out July 29 on Fuzz Club Records, and sharing the first single ‘Gewgaw for Beginners’. You can pre-order the LP here and stream the first single below.
Since forming over a decade ago, the band are now on their fifth full-length, have toured around the UK and Europe on numerous occasions and shared stages with the likes of Moon Duo, Clinic, Kikagaku Moyo and Night Beats, among many others. Arriving following their 2020 LP ‘Jangle Bowls’, ‘Dust Moves’ is the band’s first fully instrumental record and offers up a cinematic journey through meandering desert blues, strung-out psych-rock and widescreen, hypnotic drones.
“We´ve been thinking about recording an instrumental album for a while because we particularly like the fluid movement it can create”, the band say, citing contemporary instrumental artists like 75 Dollar Bill and Bobby Lee as influences alongside library music and the experimental synths of Mort Garson or Syrinx. “Even if these can be considerably different in genre or style, they can share a similar mood, it’s somehow about ‘sound’ rather than ‘song’.”
“Making this record always felt a bit more like sound explorations, less like writing songs”, they continue: “We focused on using new instruments like the mellotron, a self-made “box of creepy tricks” and making guitars sound like they were actually not guitars. Words or lyrics would have just had a restrictive effect here and that wasn´t what we were aiming at. In this manner, the songs on this record resulted from jams and evolved into repetitive and simply flowing instrumental pieces. It was a tonne of fun to make.”
On the new single out today, they add: “Gewgaw For Beginners is a good example: it’s opened, driven and closed by the rhythm section, with odd guitars and eerie rubbish bouncing around in between. It´s up to you where this song leads.”
