Our american friend Ben made this really, really great video for On A Sea. I really dig the interpretation of the song and it’s really well put together. Now someone go bug him to make some for all our other songs!
Good news for anyone who’s scared of Zip files and for some reason doesn’t have PayPal; you can now get our EP on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and you can listen for free on Spotify.
The EP is £3.45 on Amazon and £3.95 on iTunes. On our Bandcamp you can download our album in a higher bitrate for FREE. You can choose to pay some if you like but we don’t expect you to. Basically, it’s awesome, and if you choose to get our EP you might as well get it from there.
The EP will be coming soon to other streaming services too; Deezer, eMusic, Mog, iheartradio and Zune, amongst a couple of other stores including Google Play.
Arbor Lights Monthly Playlist - May 2012
Hey everyone, here’s the latest installment of our monthly playlist! It’s a pretty varied one this month:
Antelope - Reflector
Bear vs. Shark - Blood Giver
Time Zone featuring John Lydon - World Destruction
Soundgarden - Live To Rise
Foo Fighters - Come Back
Blacklisters - Clubfoot By Kasabian
The Appleseed Cast - Hanging Marionette
Algernon Cadwaller - Uniform
You Slut! - Fiftzeen
Cursive - Art Is Hard
Mastodon - Curl Of The Burl
My Morning Jacket - Holdin’ Onto Black Metal
Source: Spotify
08/05/12
Hi everyone. Once again we’ve been really quiet on here and for that I’m super sorry. We’ll do better for you now, baby, I promise. Anyway, there’s a couple of interesting things we can talk about today, so here goes:
EP Copies
Our handmade copies of the EP are proving to be pretty popular! We’re really glad people have been enjoying them. If you’ve snagged one, let us know what number you’ve got! If you haven’t seen them already, go here and check out our hand-made copies of the EP, and then go here to our Bandcamp and buy one. £3 plus postage! You’re practically robbing us.
Getting played at football stadiums and on podcasts
We got played at Molineux football ground on Sunday, just before kick-off between Wolves and Everton. That’s pretty rad!
We’ve also been featured on The Milk Bar podcast, which is a sort of local podcast here in the Midlands - our drummer J got a sort of light grilling about the band from the presenter, and he didn’t swear. Good job! Thanks to Jason Forrest for putting us on - he also was responsible for a few thousand football fans being subjected to Zombie Ska, so he deserves even more love.
The 6forty Project podcast is another amazing collection of post-rock music and they’ve featured us on their latest playlist alongside some of my absolute favourite bands (this is exciting!)
We also got played on the Five Song Set podcast, which is neat and featured a few interesting bands. Check that one out here.
EP 2
On a list of surprises falling somewhere between ‘grass is green’ and ‘grass isn’t very nice to just chew on unless you’re a cow’, we’ve started working on EP number 2. Or an album. Who knows. Some of you who came down to our EP launch gig will have heard a couple of songs (including this one on Youtube - thanks Dad!) that we’ve finished so far and we have a few more in the pipeline. It’s exciting writing again after so long recording and not moving forward! It’s also exciting to see where we’re going as a band. Hopefully you’ll be excited too.
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Anyway that’s about it for now. As ever, come say hello here or on our Facebook, where we’ve got into a habit of telling everyone how awesome other bands are instead of ourselves. If you haven’t checked the EP out yet, seriously, what? You’ve read all of this and you haven’t even listened to a bit of it? Go sort it out!
Hugs and kisses, you horrible lot. xo
Speaking of hand-made copies…here’s a little making-of in photographs. It was a lot of work (and papercuts!) but it was worth it.
If you’d like one, we’ll be selling them online very soon. And by selling, we mean practically giving them away to you all.
02/04/12 - EP odds and ends, launch gig.
Hello, hello, hello. First of all, I’m really sorry that we didn’t do some hilarious and original April Fool’s joke, like pretended to have written a dubstep version of our album, or that Greg had died in a house fire. Most importantly though, we’d like to thank every single one of you who downloaded our recently released EP. We’ve been blown away with the response and people’s kindness (many of you paid for music you could have got for free!) and we’ve had some great feedback.
We have a couple of bits of news we’d like to share with you, so read on, soul sisters. Wall of text, activate!
EP launch gig - April 21st
On Saturday 21st April we will be officially ‘launching’ the EP with a live show at The Flapper & Firkin in Birmingham.
We are lining up some of our favourite local bands to play alongside us and it’s set to be a great night of music, so we’d be chuffed if you could join us and celebrate.
Check out the Facebook event for more info.
We’re also playing with the amazing IO on Thursday at the Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham. It’s going to be ace. See you there, perhaps.
EP now available on Spotify
The ‘Arbor Lights EP’ EP - EP - is now available to listen to on Spotify, along with our 2011 single ‘On A Sea’, so if you’d rather listen there, maybe you should click here to get the goods. Since we get about 0.007p per play through Spotify, telling your friends that they can listen to us there would be most appreciated!
So, what’s next?
Well, we’ve been pretty busy doing this whole ‘EP release’ nonsense which has meant we’ve not had a lot of time to actually write songs. However, we’ve written two new ones completely and if you’re a post-rock whore, you’ll be happy to know that together they’re just as long as our entire EP. You can listen to one of the tracks live here on the Youtubes. It’s pretty pretty.
Anyway, that’s enough for now. Thanks for reading, and continue being excellent, you lovable scamps you.
Much Love, Alex, James, Greg and Matt
Arbor Lights x
For more info, please visit our website.
Awesome! A fan all the way from Brazil e-mailed us earlier on today to show us a video he made of himself hang-gliding, with our music as the backing. How fucking cool is this? Everyone click through to Mauricio’s Youtube page and give the guy some love.
Lovely words about us, courtesy of Gigseen.
“Arbor Lights have a great sound (and great taste - lots ofMogwai-respect on their site) and have made their debut with an excellently realised set of cracking tunes that can only serve to propel them further onto the radar of a wide swathe of potential fans. Give it a spin.”
Thank you, Gigseen!
Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded/purchased the EP so far.
If you haven’t already, get on it!
http://arborlights.bandcamp.com
The real question on our minds is, what do you all think?
We’re #10 on Bandcamp’s front page!
Hello! We're Arbor Lights, and we are crafters of fine, hearty instrumental rock. We are from Birmingham in the UK. Sometimes we play loud, sometimes we play quiet.
We released our self-titled EP in March 2012; you can listen to it and download it for free at:
http://arborlights.bandcamp.com
