Artist:
Lamplight
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Indie Folk
Total Time:
41:00
Record Label:
Western Vinyl
Purchasing Links:
MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music
Release Date
March 8, 2024
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Lamplight
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Indie Folk
Total Time:
41:00
Record Label:
Western Vinyl
Purchasing Links:
MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music
Release Date
March 8, 2024
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Purchasing Links
Product Description: In the sway of a rural breeze, Hatcher-Williams' vocals soothe and enchant the listener on his self-titled debut, which recounts his odyssey from a child raised in a Virginia cult, to a burned out tech worker in New York, and then back to Virginia, happily married to his childhood friend. Throughout the album, he explores identity as it relates to where a person is from and evolves with where they live, and how that facet of self is further compounded by the amount of agency one has over where they call home. To some extent, Lamplight is about learning when to take the reins, and when to let go-discovering what parts of yourself should be pruned, so new branches can grow. Hatcher-Williams, born into a New Age community headquartered in southwest Virginia, spent his early years entrenched in art studies and playing in various bands, before studying design and programming at a local community college. A job opportunity led him to relocate to New York with his wife, where he would soon co-found a digital design agency, and his musical ambitions fell to the wayside. The stress of this demanding career and city life began to take a severe toll on his mental and physical health, as well as his marriage; he started dreaming of a simpler life with his partner and eventually parted ways with the company. It was a chance encounter with an old farmhouse in rural Virginia that instantly provided a much-needed sense of home, and led the unmoored pair to return to their native state. In the year between deciding he needed to move back and realizing it, Hatcher-Williams wrote and recorded what would become Lamplight, attempting to process and distill some of his experiences into songs.Though the album has moments that hint at the antique lace and creaking floorboards of traditional folk, Lamplight skews modern, in part thanks to Copeland's deft production. Hatcher-Williams met Copeland while living in Brooklyn, and as they got to know each other, he revealed that he'd spent years playing in bands before his career took over his life. Copeland's encouragement, in tandem with the concurrent changes in Hatcher-Williams' career and domestic life, gave him the confidence to revisit this part of himself that felt unfinished.The dreamlike Lamplight feels at once familiar and new; it's a room you recognize but can't quite place, the fragment of a memory that you can't pin down. There's love but also panic attacks, realizations and reckonings, questionings alongside resignations, and confrontation as well as avoidance. By the end of the album, you get the sense that Ian Hatcher-Williams has learned that he's not the dogma that over-promised and under-delivered, and he's not the youthful ambition that led him to the brink of self-destruction. He's a soft machine with limitations, improvising and adapting, seeking balance and a sense of place, just like everyone else.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Play
(03:35)
2 . Confrontation (04:44)
3 . Stillness (05:17)
4 . Lamplight (02:48)
5 . Call Your Mom (05:00)
6 . House Rules (03:53)
7 . Soft Blue (06:17)
8 . Empathy (06:41)
9 .Honey (03:33)
2 . Confrontation (04:44)
3 . Stillness (05:17)
4 . Lamplight (02:48)
5 . Call Your Mom (05:00)
6 . House Rules (03:53)
7 . Soft Blue (06:17)
8 . Empathy (06:41)
9 .Honey (03:33)
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