Light Vibes dabble in fluffy, floating pop on "Love Wins"

Having released their debut EP Following earlier this year, and followed it up promptly with another single, "Summer's Night", they're showing no sign of taking their feet off the gas, because they're already back with a new one. "Love Wins", as the title implies, takes its subject matter from the band's desire to stand up against hatred and polarisation, and look instead towards a more empathetic world.



That manifests as sugary sweet, airy pop music, extremely easy listening with a floating, free-spirited catchiness. Check it out above, and catch a Q'n'A with the band below.

BEST FIT: Hey Light Vibes! So, introduce us to your new single "Love Wins".

LIGHT VIBES: "'Love Wins' is our reaction towards the increasing winds of right wing politics sweeping over both our country and the rest of the globe. Our reflection around these current movements of polarisation, xenophobia and trans-/homophobic opinions that have made us slip away from empathy and sympathy which should be the fundamental groundstones of our society. 'Love Wins' was written post the election in 2014, when our frustration started to overgrow, which led us write this alarm-sounding, breakbeat- influenced psych pop song. It feels as current and important now as the date is was written."

You describe yourselves as experimentalists within pop music. What exactly does that mean to you?

"For us it's a vital part of making music, to experiment with different sources of sound, both acoustic and electronic. By combining analogue or digital synthesiser instruments with more recognisable sources of sound we want to find new tonal expressions. In both the production and songwriting part of making music our goals are to astonish ourselves and to let us dive into unexplored waters. It's what we find to be the most fun about making music, to be hit by the new feelings that arise from finding a new experience of sound! Then it's also about being influenced by a broad variety of genres that we consider us to be experimenting with. We love the approach of avant-garde composers like John Cage, where the limits of the combinations of orchestrating/ arranging are hard to see. We search inspiration from electronic composers like Daphne Oram to psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs. We also get inspired by pioneering bands such as Suicide, Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine but also World-music and Jazz from the likes of Coltrane to Sun Ra, etc."

You’re about to release an album in January, what would you say are the differences between that album and this year’s Following EP?

"In a way the EP is made within the same world of sounds that is going to appear on the record. Which also means that we wanted to keep a common thread within the songs but also not to get stuck with one way of saying things. Our mission as musicians is primarily to try and make music that inspires the next, and try to find new ways of expression the influences that we get. Much of the music today, we find to be either not interested in what could be done in new exciting ways or just not liberated to the idea of making what you want yourself. We admire the musicians out there who want to break the common patterns instead of just recreating them."

Your upcoming album is entitled Past/Present, can you explain that title?

"The title captures an overall theme for our album where we’re reflecting a lot about how the past affects the present, for better and for worse. Even if the lyrics of the songs are reactions of deaths in the family, individualism, mental illness or a gratitude for our longstanding friendship. Past/ Present is also referring to our reflections about memories. An overall qualm about memories losing colours, changing shape and to suddenly stop being available in our present. It’s personal but it’s also bigger than just our own reflections, so to portray the themes multi-dimensionally was very important to us. Our music may sound a bit happy on the surface, but there is a deep melancholy beneath it."