Canadian synthpop outfit LIGHTS is officially back with a brand new video for her little synth number "Toes," the lead single off her upcoming sophomore album "Siberia," due out October 4th. LIGHTS is shown playing with her band in a brightly lit room. She then gets out of a taxi and goes to a skate park and a subway. Afterwards LIGHTS goes back to the brightly lit room to play with her band. The video ends with a shot of LIGHTS walking away on a sidewalk.LIGHTS very often does both with her pure power sugar emo-pop. If you're familiar with her, this makes perfect sense; the track's like Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Starlight" set slightly lower in the atmosphere. If you're not, just think pretty, sparkly synthpop as light as its vocals. The gorgeous little synth number is a lot more mainstream-friendly with electronic, 80's-era production and poetic lyrics about trying to decipher an elusive love interest. LIGHTS leaves her voice unfiltered and natural in "Toes," singing with a sweetly coquettish delivery that really brings the charming lyrics to life.
A career trajectory that goes from "Owl City pal and Myspace keyboardist" to "featuring Holy Fuck and Shad" is a career trajectory that would be impossible to guess had Canadian artist LIGHTS not done it with promotional single "Everybody Breaks a Glass," While that fuzzy quasi-experimental song was heavier and darker than what we've seen from LIGHTS before, "Toes" is a bit more like the rest of her work, and serves a more familiar sound reminiscent of her debut album "The Listening."
LIGHTS, a 24-year-old fairly small-sized Canadian girl who makes intergalactic-electro music, is prepping for her second album and has started to release new material, going a little harder and in a different tone in her synths. In her debut and acoustic albums, LIGHTS has proven that she is an artist to be reckoned. She is still upbeat and makes you want to dance, but has added an edge to her music that was never there before. Her latest, "Toes," is a sweet love song that has an unescapable hook and infectious bouncey feeling.
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