The Mystery Lights - Purgatory [Coke Bottle LP]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: WCK009LPX
Barcode: 82313497091
Release Date: 13 Sep 2024
Genre: Garage-Rock/Psych

The Mystery Lights return with their most ambitious offering to date. With Wayne Gordon back in the producer's chair, the group delivers an eclectic mix of real-deal psychedelia, punk, art rock, and even a splash of country via the Kinks(y) pop earworm "I'm Sorry I Forgot Your Name". 

The psychedelic highlights of the album, "Purgatory", "Cerebral Crack" and "Can't Sleep Through the Silence", are dark and trippy, landing somewhere between the guitar-driven, lysergic mayhem of the 13th Floor Elevators and the punked-up, tongue-in-cheek insanity of The Monks. But throughout there's a cohesiveness threaded by the elevated musicianship, earnest lyrics and attention to detail that make for a fiercely raw, yet unabashedly catchy album–dripping with all of the sing along hooks that have made Mystery Lights one of the most exciting live bands on the scene.

PREVIOUS PRESS:

"A VIVID, DAYGLO SONIC PALETTE" 4/5 LEAD REVIEW - SHINDIG!

RECORD COLLECTOR: “A YOUTHFUL, OBNOXIOUS TAKE ON 60's PSYCH/PUNK HITTING A SIMILAR STRIDE TO BABY WOODROSE OR DEAD MOON IN PLACES”

SHINDIG!: “THERE'S A CLEAR LINEAGE ON DISPLAY HERE, FROM THIRD MAN TO ESTRUS RECORDS, VIA THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF THE 70's, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 60's SUNSET STRIP'

Tracklisting
1.    Mighty Fine & All Mine
2.    Memories
3.    Purgatory
4.    In The Streets
5.    Together Lost
6.    Trouble
7.    Sorry I Forgot Your Name
8.    Can't Sleep Through The Silence
9.    Cerebral Crack
10.    Automatic Response
11.    Don't Want No, Don't Need No
12.    Snuck Out