Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies (Black Vinyl)

Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies (Black Vinyl)Ride the Skies is the second album by Lightning Bolt, and this re release makes it available to fans for the first time since its original release. Compared to their first album its cleaner, tighter, recorded in studio rather than live. Which is not to say this is boring or sanitized in any way, Lightning Bolt never fail to make magic, filling a space with loud, raw sound. Sounds of synth or guitar turn out to be bass, and riffs become patterns,

purring with energy and life

As able to serve up the sweetest and most sensual sounds as he is the darkest and most depraved grooves

but no less powerful

this spirited culmination of modern indie folk songwriting

without breaching the gap between the self and the destabilizing chaos of the world beyond

Domestic EP captures Pavement in a transitional phase

Gang of Four

And what’s he got there in the passenger seat

the record features vocal performances from the likes of Deem Spencer

distorted drum machine loops

through art and sporting culture — ultimately questioning what it means to be an American in the autumn of the American Era

it’s a work that ultimately only finds closure in the complete surrender to forces greater than oneself