Body Of Light’s Bitter Reflection Out Today on Dais Records
Stream the luminous new album now, and see Body Of Light on tour in select west coast markets this summer.
Photo by: Andrew Jarson and Peter Shikany.
"a poignant work of art" - Post-Punk
Bitter Reflection, the fourth album by Arizona desert brotherhood Alex and Andrew Jarson aka Body Of Light, further hones their smoldering strain of tempestuous synth-pop into a transformative suite of anthems, reveries, and reckonings.
Written in the wake of 2019’s neo-EBM classic Time To Kill, they sifted inspiration from hidden moments within their own arcana– childhood tapes, home movies, abandoned demos– asking themselves the question: “How can we make this grow?” Sampled snippets of voice, noise, synth, and field recordings flicker in the periphery of Bitter Reflection's 11 tracks, murmuring like nostalgias half-forgotten, or displaced memories. This is music pulled between twin flames of truth and desire, romanticization and reality, catharsis and control, born of a bond sealed by years, dreams, and blood.
Bitter Reflection spins through a gallery of Body Of Light’s ongoing fascinations: Depeche-esque declarations of dread and excess, brooding dance floor epiphanies, lovesick looking glass ballads laced with Art Of Noise orchestral stabs, and smooth, Thomas Dolby city skyline melancholias.
Working with Telefon Tel Aviv co-founder Josh Eustis in Los Angeles, Body Of Light incorporated an expanded array of live instrumentation – piano, bass, saxophone, acoustic guitar – in addition to vintage Akai samplers, Moogs, and archaic hardware to Bitter Reflection, giving the albm an eclectic, unpredictable palette.
A new age demands new waves, and Body Of Light belongs at the forefront of a resurgent generation fusing modern methods with the sounds of futures past. Singer Alex Jarson sees their muse clearly, at the axis of anguished transition, temporal collapse, and, just possibly, the brink of hope: “Time is dysphoric. The dream breaks down. Everyone’s beginning to panic, but in the end something will come from it.”
Bitter Reflection is out today via Dais Records, and Body Of Light will be playing select shows this summer in support of the album.
Body Of Light, on tour:
July 7 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge (Record Release Show)
August 2 Las Vegas, NV @ Artifice
August 5 Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium
August 6 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Shop
August 8 Portland, OR @ Holocene
August 9 Seattle, WA @ Barboza
August 11 Riverside, CA @ The Hideaway Cafe
August 12 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
August 13 San Diego, CA @ The Whistle Stop
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