Today, New Jersey band Lightheaded released their debut album Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! via Slumberland Records.
The first half features brand new tracks that deliver a delightful mix of retro-leaning indie jangle pop and melodic alternative sounds.
The second half compiles their 2023 EP Good Good Great!—presented here in its original form, without updates or re-recordings.
About the album by Lightheaded:
Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! is their most collaborative and earnest release to date, and marks their first collaborative release with Slumberland and the UK’s Skep Wax label.
Recorded bi-coastally with Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor) and Alicia Vanden Heuvel (The Aislers Set, Poundsign) and drenched in lush reverb on tape by Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me), the songs are rendered in a dreamy soft focus that perfectly suits their starry-eyed themes. Adding to all the fun are the cameos and contributions from the new generation of New York indie pop goodness, featuring members of Starcleaner Reunion and Trinket, pushing the songs on this record to a high point in the young band’s discography.
The Laurel Canyon folky jangle of “Same Drop” and the chamber pop of “The View From Your Room” nod to the ‘60s without feeling antiquated. Cynthia’s syrupy-sweet vocals are well suited to the girl group harmonies of “Crash Landing of the Clod,” a lovesick, Shangri-Las-style ballad. The tumbling melodies in “The Lindens, The Lindens, The Lindens!” mirror the song’s sun-dappled fantasy, while the tribute “Me & Amelia Fletcher” sounds, fittingly, like a long-lost Talulah Gosh track. Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! builds on the foundation of Lightheaded’s first two releases, their sound even more perfectly bittersweet and fully-realized than ever.
Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Lightheaded – Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! [Streaming]
