EP2: Ether Waves, by Lightning Cult

EP2: Ether Waves

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1.	Intro (a haunting) 01:56	buy track
2.	Pacific Hits 03:39	buy track
3.	Drifter/Bruiser 04:18	buy track
4.	Delirio 03:42	buy track
5.	Starcave 05:27	buy track

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Lightning Cult is a new project created by Mike Marchant, a self-taught songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work received consistent critical acclaim during a productive period that began in 2007 and ended after a cancer diagnosis in 2012. He was described by Westword as “one of Denver’s best songwriters” and by the Denver Post as “one of Denver’s most admired songwriters and performers”. The AV Club Denver wrote that Marchant “has demonstrated a lackadaisical mastery of dreamy, druggy indie folk.” The August 2018 release of Lightning Cult’s “EP1: Burner” came after a four-year hiatus, during which Marchant recovered from cancer treatments and relocated from Denver to New Mexico. For the production of “EP1: Burner”, he enlisted a like-minded collaborator: Luke Bern Carr, founder of Santa Fe-based multimedia world-building project Storming the Beaches with Logos in Hand. For Lightning Cult’s second EP, Carr’s position shifted from hired producer and performer to project member, and his role in arranging and performing Marchant’s compositions increased significantly.

“EP2: Ether Waves” is a bolder, darker, more adventurous sequel to its fairly straightforward predecessor. Marchant and Carr shared production duties, working at their own recording spaces over a four-month period. They’ve traded in acoustic guitars for overdriven, echo-drenched electrics, and expanded their sound with synthesizers, strings, drum machines, and complex vocal arrangements. “Ether Waves” is a dreamy, intricately layered song cycle that moves confidently through genres and moods while remaining grounded by Marchant’s simple, melodic compositions. “This record explores fragmented memories and emotional disorientation” says Marchant, who suffered serious memory loss as a result of chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and a brief period of “very self-destructive living” that followed. “I went through hell, and survived and recovered, but I lost a lot of…information. With these songs, I’m using sounds and words and melodies to try to make sense of images that are incomplete and grieve the loss of the ones that are missing…It’s more fun and less pretentious than I just made it sound, I promise.”

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released May 31, 2019

Lightning Cult is:

Mike Marchant - vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, synthesizers, piano, programming, sampler, organ

Luke Bern Carr - drums, bass guitars, vocals, programming, percussion, string arrangement

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All songs written by Marchant, arranged by Marchant and Carr

Produced and Recorded by Carr and Marchant at Bernlore Studios / Sakul Rakk Studios and Cloud Command International

Mixed and Mastered by Carr at Bernlore Studios / Sakul Rakk Studios

Artwork by Andrea Isabel Vargas

©2019 Cloud Command Sound - All Rights Reserved

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