Released May 11 – Universal Digital/Crash Records 

 
Behold the saviours of Radio 2’s drive-time playlist. Actually, that’s a bit cruel, although The Lights would slot in fine between James Morrison and the Proclaimers.  The Lights’ sound recalls those UK guitar bands who make their mark during the wasteland of mid-1980s pop; bands like Prefab Sprout and Deacon Blue who mixed romantic notions of Americana with their fey, milky tea Brit indie. “Low Hundreds” sounds like Belle and Sebastian if they’d been raised on a diet of the Eagles and Crosby, Stills and Nash rather than Orange Juice and the Velvet Underground, with boy-girl vocals lending bittersweet melancholia to the breezy drive-time riffing. They even chuck a banjo in there and make it work.

Posted In Single Reviews, May 05 2009. Words - Richard