The Mystery Lights - "Follow Me Home"

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"Captivating, (...) firmly rooted in the tradition of Sixties garage and gritty NYC punk." - Rolling Stone "The Mystery Lights have been making a name for themselves as one of NYC's best garage rock bands, and cetainly as one of the best live shows." - Brooklyn Vegan

Daptone Records, the world leader in today's soul music is now ready to take on the happenings of the modern rock scene. They present to you, on their newest subsidiary, WICK Records: The Mystery Lights. The band's self-titled debut comes out June 24th, and after wrapping up a European tour, they'll bring their incendiary set to Mercury Lounge in NYC on release day. They may sound more like some lost outfit from the depths of mid-sixties Texas than a bunch of scruffy kids from the streets of 21st Century Brooklyn, but The Mystery Lights combine relentless enthusiasm and a knack for a hook into an all-action rock 'n roll combo for the here and now. Last year, the band released their first 45’ on Daptone, including the ridiculously catchy neo-teenbeat number "Too Many Girls" (our protagonist surrounded by a feminine throng he can't control) and the snaking psych-blues of "Too Tough To Bear", featuring the band dragging their squalling guitars deep into swampland. Though their self-titled debut LP was recorded to 8-track tape at Daptone's legendary House of Soul by Daptone studio superstar Wayne Gordon and mixed by Bosco Mann (Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley), it was the cutting engineer JJ Golden (Ty Segall, The Warlocks, Pissed Jeans) who called it “the hottest record I ever cut.” Their “In The Studio with The Mystery Lights” video takes a behind-the-scenes look at what took place at Daptone's House of Soul Studio as the band worked to create Wick's inaugural release and what is now a record that deserves to be raved about.

TOUR DATES 6.18 -  Coney Island, NY @ Burger Beach Bash NYC/MCU Park 6.20 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott TI 6.22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie  6.24 - New York City, NY @ Mercury Lounge  6.26 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat  7.25 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern  7.26 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir  7.29 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar  7.30 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg  7.31 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop  8.1 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium The Mystery Lights - TRACKLISTING 01. Intro 02. Follow Me Home 03. Flowers In My Hair, Demons In My Head 04. Too Many Girls 05. Without Me 06. Melt 07. Candlelight 08. 21 & Counting 09. Too Tough To Bear 10. Before My Own 11. What Happens When You Turn The Devil Down LINKS Facebook Twitter Soundcloud Bandcamp Instagram