April 18, 2012
Introducing ‘LO HI’ – the first single from Los Angeles duo Peaking Lights’ highly anticipated new album Lucifer. Recorded in Brooklyn at Gary’s Electric studio over the course of a month, Peaking Lights consider Lucifer a nocturnal version of their uniquely eclectic sound. Heavier and more rhythmic, elements of analogue dance music, sound collage…
April 10, 2012
Outer Limitz is a storied project from the U.S. underground: the work of 24 year old iconic loner S.A.M. is an evolving exercise in narco-VHS memory and effortless, beyond the galaxy pop songwriting. What would the Chuck Berry Voyager Golden recording sound like having made a 40,000 year lap around the Milky Way and miraculously landed…
March 27, 2012
VISIT LUCIFER.FM NOW Yes! The day is here and with it comes the truest of pleasures in announcing ‘Lucifer’ – the third full length release from Peaking Lights – due for release through us here at Weird World on June 18th 2012 (and through our friends at Mexican Summer in the USA a day later.) With it,…
March 8, 2012
Ernest Greene, AKA Washed Out, has been grinding non stop since last summer’s ‘Within and Without’ release – taking the much loved record to increasingly huge crowds in north America, Australasia and Japan pretty much relentlessly. Along the way, he stopped off for a visit with the good people at Daytrotter in north Carolina to record…
February 20, 2012
A perfectly beautiful morning to announce a run of new Peaking Lights dates for Summer: Saturday June 2nd – Field Day, London Sunday June 3rd – Forbidden Fruit, Dublin Tuesday June 5th – Brudenell, Leeds Wednesday June 6th – XOYO, London Friday 17th August – Beacons Festival, North Yorkshire Saturday / Sunday 18th – 19th…
January 13, 2012
936 is the gift that just keeps giving around here (and many other places besides), a fact cemented by this recently posted session recording of Aaron and Indra cranking out one of its many highlights, ‘Marshmellow Yellow’. The action went down back in December before a triumphant show at London’s Rhythm Factory. Check it out…
January 11, 2012
Seems a long time ago now that we dropped the beloved Dye It Blonde by S Dubz as our first release on Weird World. That perfect suite of loved up pop romps is beyond enduring though and you should take ten minutes or so to remind yourself of that by zoning in to the session…
December 8, 2011
Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, AKA Peaking Lights, are currently playing their hugely acclaimed 936 album for the first time in Europe. To celebrate the entirely sold out run of shows, the band are sharing a very special mini-documentary shot at the start of Autumn by Chicago-based film maker Ben Poster. The piece (the second…
November 28, 2011
Here’s the new video for Peaking Lights’ ‘Hey Sparrow’ – one of the many highlights of the duo’s much acclaimed second album “936″ (out now through Weird World.) Made by emerging film-maker and cult music video director Cam Archer (Xiu Xiu, Julianna Barwick, Sabareth Tucek) the Malick-esque video follows a young girl wandering lonely around…
November 24, 2011
Last week, Peaking Lights aired an incredible new mix each day on continuous loop via their own 936.fm site. Fear not if you missed them, though, as we’ve now made them available physically in the form of four themed CD-R mixtapes – A, C, I & D. Pick up a copy of one, or look…