Body of Light’s 2019 album Time To Kill holds up as one of the more iconic modern records in an increasingly crowded field, an intrepid and intoxicating combination of neo-EBM, synth-pop, darkwave and whatever other fancy genre tags that apply one minute before disappearing into a dark dance floor fog the next.
Now, the Arizona desert brotherhood of Alex and Andrew Jarson have announced their fourth studio album, Bitter Reflection, set for June 30 release via Dais Records, and it blasts out of the gate with the seductive and black-lit “Never Ever.” The new single is a crystalline effort complete with a knowingly damaged soul and midnight saxophone allure, again unveiling the type of tumbling and traumatic depth we’ve come to appreciate from Body of Light’s very human creative machine.
The new record is summed up nicely here: “Sampled snippets of voice, noise, synth, and field recordings flicker in the periphery of Bitter Reflection‘s 11 tracks, murmuring like nostalgias half-forgotten, or displaced memories. This is music pulled between twin flames of truth and desire, romanticization and reality, catharsis and control, born of a bond sealed by years, dreams, and blood.”
It’s music for both our needing times and our needless times. Dive into Body of Light’s newly glowing universe below, and prepare for the added excellence certain to follow.