LIGHTS rolls out her brand new music video for the song "Banner," serves as the second official single from Canadian singer's latest sophomore effort, "Siberia," which has a strong dubstep influence, while also wandering into genres of dream pop, minimal, dance and even noise, is nominated for "Pop Album of the Year" at this year's JUNO Awards. The event airs April 1st on CTV."Siberia" sees synth pop superstar venture into new directions as being slightly grittier in a musical sense than the previous, The Listening, but retaining the charm and innocence of the previous album and EP. The girl who I saw bring her synth-pop from the bedroom to the stage with music to light up faces and hearts. For an artist that can be considered a poster-girl for being 'self-made,' it's hard to argue against the artistic progression and her own right for creative exploration and development.
Directed and conceptualized by Sean Michael Turrell, the clip was shot from dawn till dusk over the course of one day in the desert about an hour outside of Los Angeles. The video's mood places LIGHTS in a Road Warrior-inspired post-apocalyptic world, and features the 24-year-old Canadian pop princess walking down alone the long empty road in a deserted dessert, was based on the film "The Book of Eli," until she runs into a group of other young brave hitchhikers.
As she travels through a vast desert and encounters a pick-up truck of dirty-faced young vagabonds who invite her to join them. They continue down a lonely highway, and everything almost goes smoothly until hitting a roadblock where a bunch of pirate-wannabes stop them and start attacking. All LIGHTS had to do though is to raise a white flag - a banner, if you will - and everything's good. The setting is pretty interesting and beautiful and if you haven't already be sure to give her album a listen.
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