aaamusic | On 04, Mar 2012

Sweet Lights is the solo project of Shai Halperin, singer of The Capitol Years and his voice has a melodic and melancholy feel to it, however Endless Town still manages to sound fairly bright, probably thanks to the guitar if nothing else. The lyrics have a narrative style to them and alongside Halperin’s vocals we get a sense of something more gloomy and nostalgic underneath the cheery music.

‘When I finally lost my mind, I wasn’t young but it was time. Living in the middle of the road, I wasn’t old but I resigned.’

‘Everyone who knows you thinks you’d stay, but why would you stay, in this endless town… Anyone with any sense would never go, so why would you go to this endless town?’

The song plays a clever twist of happy-sad emotions and manages to produce some very catchy Indie-pop. And although anyone with any sense apparently wouldn’t, I challenge you to not return to this Endless Town after a first listen (http://www.myspace.com/sweetlights).

Sweet Lights also do a cover of the Traveling Wilbury’s song, Handle with Care for any Bob Dylan and George Harrison fans. A song which very much works for them, performed in a spacey and dreamy style with a hint of harpsichord. Sweet Lights are playing the End of the Road festival in Dorset this August, which is well worth checking out if by then you haven’t lost your mind in endless towns and such.

 

Rose Benge