Lightning Bug continue to build anticipation for their approaching album, A Color of the Sky. Their latest salvo is the particularly delightful, layered “Song of the Bell”. Beginning with feedback and discordance, the song then suddenly bursts into a stream of catchiness, whether via its riff or singer Audrey Kang‘s emotive vocals.
Speaking on the song, she reflects thoughtfully at length:
“‘Song of the Bell’ is a song about hope, but it’s also about understanding that uncertainty is an inextricable part of being alive.This was the last song to be written—we’d already recorded the bulk of the record. We were in the first leg of quarantine and I felt like our days had been abruptly hollowed out. I was thinking about emptiness and reading the Tao Te Ching, this very enlightened text, ‘to be empty is to be full, twist to be straight,’ etc. So I was thinking about that concept, how one can ‘empty’ oneself to be full, and where is that line, between emptying yourself and losing yourself? I thought about how when something is empty, you sort of have two choices: you can see it for what it used to hold and no longer does (i.e. a ‘shell’), or you can look for its potential to hold new things and possibilities (i.e. a ‘vessel’).”
Check out its trance-like video below, or listen on streaming platforms.
Lightning Bug’s A Color Of The Sky is out on June 25 through Fat Possum. You can find Lightning Bug on Instagram and Facebook.
