Having garnered millions of streams to date and snagged a feature on Vulfpeck's album, Earthquake Lights has just released its new album Signs of Life. The Brooklyn-based rock outfit, with whom we spoke more than a year ago on the occasion of the release of their Desert Bloom album, now put the focus on themes of self-reflection, self-fulfilling prophecies and coming to terms with past mistakes, while assessing where you've been and where you're headed. “Where you end up can reflect your own choices, and this record is focused on that level of self-assessment,” Rodenhouse explains.
From Silhouette, the opening track of their just-released album, to Long Lost, Pictures in collaboration with Lindsey Lomis, A Dead Wind or January, among others, Earthquake Lights' new project is definitely highly introspective. Being a reflection of experimentation and exploration under pressure and celebrating craftsmanship and working with analogue/acoustic instruments and players to create sounds that are truly unique in today's content-obsessed industry, Signs of Life proves once again that their personal sound goes far beyond the alt-rock genre to which they provide a unique sensitivity having earned the affection of the international music scene.
“We're trying to make a timeless record that leans into traditions of music and playership, not the future of music. Samples and AI and drum loops are all amazing, but we're trying to make records that celebrate humans,” they say when asked about the starting point and the meaning behind their new record, which involved more than a hundred people in the process. “I believe you can hear that in the sounds of this record.” This is a claim for quality music in which the refined and carefully detailed sound comes together with a deep message that contains interesting reflections.