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• Waverly Place

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  Limited edition LP Waverly Place gathers together 13 Pale Lights songs on 12" LP, many for the first time on vinyl. Includes the digital single Twisting the Knife / Fourteen Stories, CD and digital only b-sides, and rare compilation recordings, including the never released outside Japan "Dearest Virginia," and live favorite "The Soft City."
  
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  I’ve been a fan of what NYC musician (via the UK) Phil Sutton has done since way back (like Comet Gain), but my fave of all his bands is the Pale Lights. Once COVID took hold Sutton put the 'lights on hold and focused more on Love Burns, his solo project. I really like the Love, Burns stuff, but I’ve secretly missed the Pale Lights.
  
  This isn’t a new record, though the band has released two ace ones so far, instead, this is an odds and sods collection of random singles EPs and compilation cuts, etc. I’m not sure if it’s everything they’ve released beyond their two LPs, but it’s pretty close.
  
  The name of the game here is melody. Jangly guitars, warm organs, supple rhythms, and on top of it all, the cherry on top as it were, is Sutton’s casual, inviting vocals.
  
  Oh, and most of the songs on here are flat-out terrific. The guitar on the brilliant “Twisting the Knife” is majestic while the title track brings that unbeatable organ into the fold and “The Soft City ‘ (the name of one of Sutton’s previous bands) bites down a slight bit harder.
  
  Also don’t miss “You and I,” “Fourteen Stories Tall” and “Dearest Virginia’ (which might be the best cut the Go-Betweens never wrote). There’s plenty to devour on here.
  
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  Due to my constant exposure to Pale Lights music, the release of this Waverley Place compilation made me somewhat surprised to realize that their debut Before There Were Pictures album was released nine years ago and that it has been six years since they released their sophomore (and last new music album), The Stars Seemed Brighter. In fact we were in the middle of various pandemic lockdown stages when they released their last glorious You and I single on Slumberland Records. How times flies by when you are listening to brilliance!?
  
  Despite the vagaries of time, this album just feels so fresh and vital, so ridiculously pertinent to modern-day jangle-pop, and a little bit like a ‘beautiful farewell’ to their fans, even if the band has not announced it as such.
  
  Ronny Pinkau, founder of the Kleine Intergrund Schallplatten label that is releasing the vinyl (Jigsaw Records are also offering the release in CD format ) describes the composition of this release as…
  
  “Waverly Place” includes songs and recordings from different compilations and 7″s and songs which were released only on Bandcamp and as digital releases. All the recordings were remastered for vinyl by Ron Harrity, at Peapod Recordings in Portland, Maine. All songs have been carefully selected and compiled by Pale Lights, giving the LP the feel of a true album rather than a compilation.
  
  Without doubt, there is a flow to the release that belies it’s ‘the best of the non-album rest’ emphasis, but then the Pale Lights’ propensity for always finding that amazing jangled riff that cuts straight through the core of each track means that there is always the tendency for them to be the perfect band to release a compilation with.
  
  In an album completely devoid of filler, tracks such as You and I, Come In The Spring, and Through the Lynchgates, perhaps stick their heads just above the jangle-pop parapet for me (stick your favorites in the comments for me, Pale Lights fans), although a blindfolded pin selection to the tracklist would never disappoint, no matter where it landed!
  
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