STRANGELIGHT - "Effortless"

STRANGELIGHT: post-hardcore dream team reveals new track "Effortless" from upcoming debut album

Strangelight has revealed new track "Effortless," from its upcoming debut album Adult Themes.

Stream it, here:
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From Oakland, California, Strangelight is a new band consisting of four punk veterans – members of Kowloon Walled City, Transistor Transistor, Swingin' Utters, Cobra Skulls, Less Art, and more. The quartet formed and recorded its debut album immediately before the coronavirus pandemic descended on the US.

Out October 23rd, Adult Themes is ten chunks of tortured-yet-anthemic rock n' roll, by way of teeth-gnashing hardcore punk. The album was recorded and mixed by Kowloon Walled City's Scott Evans; mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Gouge Away).

Post-Trash.com, who premiered the new song this week, summed up Strangelight with these words: “I like to believe that Oakland’s Strangelight is named after the Fugazi song from the seminal album 'The Argument,' and why shouldn’t they be. Creating their own brand of post-hardcore, who better to chose for a namesake. Strangelight however have their own lineage worth noting, featuring members of sludge stalwarts Kowloon Walled City as well as Transistor Transistor and Cobra Skulls. They’ve come together and they’re ready to knock down all doors with their enormous sound, built on Hot Snakes fueled punk and adrenaline, stomping and thrashing one moment, dense and thudding the next."

A recent write-up from Decibel Magazine reads: “The twisty, smart, enlivening, and all around killer debut from post-hardcore expanders Strangelight... A sonic attack that combines the best aspects of the members' other bands with an extremely welcome and heavy dose of Propagandhi and Hot Snakes-esque rock n’ roll perversion."

Strangelight's Nat Coghlan says: "The album is called 'Adult Themes' because the lyrics deal with the monotonous aspects of life as an adult. I don't pretend to have any great insight into the human condition. There are songs about mortgages, there are songs about retirement plans. And since it was all written and recorded before the pandemic, it's kind of a weird snapshot of life as it was, for better or worse."

Photo by Sara Sanger