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Awesome new videos from Vesper Magazine - many, many thanks!
And, much love to Austin Music Weekly for the great job on these below! You can also listen to the entire set here
Formed by members of Lomita and Monster Girl, The White White Lights blend the delicate and violent in equal parts, creating vivid and potent songs that both seduce and destroy. Fans of Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, Butthole Surfers, and similarly iconic bands will likely appreciate this sound.
Our debut EP Medium Head Boy was released in early 2010 on Indierect Records as limited edition, hand-made CD and we're currently putting finishing touches on a full-length vinyl, to be released in late 2010.
Selected Press
"The White White Lights create a fractured, appealing, dangerous and spiky sound, full of curves, cliffs and blinding lights. Simply put, they crush...they destroy...and they’re endearing."
- The Deli
"Best New Austin Band!"
- Raoul Hernandez, Austin Chronicle
"Like the mutant love child of The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s arty, urban cool and Nancy Sinatra’s psyched-up strut. The much bandied-about group made a big splash last year with their considerable stage presence and an impressive debut EP Medium Head Boy."
- Paul Carruba, KUT 90.5
"Top 10 to Watch in 2010"
- Austin Powell, Austin Chronicle
"On the radar with their intricate, layered rock and roll."
- Spin
"The band demonstrates an unusually mature touch, draping Gacy's haunted growls and methadone croons in lightly realized swirls of guitar or wintry keyboard textures — and just when it seems like floating is all it can do, it breaks into dance-rock showers."
- The Onion / Decider
"The shades of white are infinite. I have to emphasize that vocalist Jenny Gacy is really good. Her voice has absolutely perfect intonation."
- John Aielli, KUT 90.5
"Little of this, little of that, little loud, little eerie, little cutesy, little sexy, little angry, little thoughtful, little vicious, little dance-y, little hardcore, and a lot awesome."
- Austin Chronicle
"The white white lights are one of the more promising bands in Austin. We're big fans of them, having seen them multiple times."
- Ultra8201
"The White White Lights delivers fluorescent sounds with bleak hearts found in a dark city. They create emotional and natural synthetic dim and distant noise smothered with impassioned lyrics. The White White Lights feel like a soft kiss before bodies sweat sweet love."
- BleachOnline
"The White White Lights are another on the rise Austin group. Expect to hear lots of great material when they're done recording."
- Do512
"One of the bands that we’re most excited about. The quartet throws down brashly fueled dance-punk riffs while Jenny Gacy feverishly balances furious howls and sultry, delicate, intricate pop."
- The Austin Sound
"A fair amount of New Wave mixed with a whole lot of rock. Jennifer Matthews' vocals were sexy and clear, radiating nuances of Beth Gibbons and Chrissie Hynde."
- Austin Chronicle
Releases
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Live Shows
05/12 Austin, TX
9pm at Swan Dive, Austin Pets Alive benefit with Kinky Machines, Little Radar, and The Couch
05/18 Austin, TX
10pm at Hotel Vegas, Red River Noise showcase with Pop Pistol and Politics
06/09 Austin, TX
11pm at Skinny's Ballroom, with Floatstone, Flashbulb Fires, The Sweet Nuthins, and Nic Armstrong
06/30 Austin, TX
Fire Fest near McKinney Falls. More info here.
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