Out now on Seth Troxler’s Slacker 85.
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Addy Weitzman has unveiled his debut album ‘Light Months Will Fly Over Us’, a work of new wave, romantic pop, and art rock shaped by a “frighteningly vast” archive of compositions and a network of collaborators. Sequenced by Seth Troxler, the release marks a new creative direction for Slacker 85.
The album’s title, drawn from a poem by Russian writer Anna Akhmatova, captures a “hopefulness” and “dream-like” quality reflected in its eight tracks, which explore themes of fear, love, and salvation with lyrical and musical finesse. Orchestral arrangements by Adam Wilcox run through the record, from the lounge-inflected opener ‘End of The Line’ to the Scott Walker-inspired ‘Beyond The Speed of Life’.
Richard Lamb collaborates on the playful, 80s-infused ‘Entertainment Is All I Wanted (And I Found It)’ and the icier ‘Stranger To Your Kind’. With Patrick Boivin of The Beat Escape, Weitzman creates the art-rock single ‘Running & Returning’, existential ‘Ice Cream Candle’, and baroque ‘No Man’s Land’. ‘Gabrielle’ closes the album with a portrait of a woman drifting through a city “where cigarettes and roses fill the air.”
Listen to ‘Light Months Will Fly Over Us’ and get your copy here.
