It has been awhile since I last heard from the Montreal band Bodywash.
They just dropped a visual music video for Kind of Light.
The leading single is taken from their upcoming album I Held the Shape While I Could which comes out on April 14, 2023 via Light Organ Records.
A cool shoegazey dream pop tune that has a throwback to early Stars a-la Elevator Love Letter era.
About the track from Bodywash:
“Kind of Light” is a reflection on how to pull back from something broken.
It finds Long Decter expressing both despair and acceptance.
‘We breathe / and lose it at the same time,’ she sings, accompanied by underwater organs and a propulsive kick pattern, which eventually erupts into a high-energy breakbeat.
Squealing guitars and throbbing bass synths flesh out the track as it evolves from somber elegy into an electrifying catharsis. The trajectory suggests that in loss there can also be hope and energy, a new shape taking form.
“I wrote ‘Kind of Light’ in bed,” says Long Decter. “It was the fall of 2018 and Chris and I were both going through experiences of learning not to trust what feels like home.
He sent me a plugin for a new organ sound, suggesting it might provide inspiration.
I sent him back chords, a kick pattern, and some vocals about trying to pull your legs back; trying to take your energy out of the wreckage and put it into yourself.
The process of deciding what’s worth keeping, what can be reworked and what gets tossed in the fire.
A process that is devastating and also weirdly invigorating, because you can see new possibilities opening up in front of you. And you can start to look for light somewhere else.”
Kind of Light gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Bodywash – Kind of Light [Music Video]
