{"id":36072,"date":"2021-03-29T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36072"},"modified":"2023-04-06T23:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:17:24","slug":"premiere-black-light-smoke-share-video-for-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36072","title":{"rendered":"Black Light Smoke share video for \u2018Figure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke have shared their haunting video for&nbsp;<em>Figure<\/em> directed by Sina Taherkhani. This is a eerie track that is slow and brooding so the chosen video treatment is the perfect accompaniment for the track\u2019s mood. The video comes ahead of the new LP, \u2018The Early Years\u2019, out next week via Cut Mistake Music. Check out the <em>Figure<\/em> video clip via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nib_T6D6uwk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About \u2018The Early Years<\/strong>\u2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The Early Years\u2019 is a retrospective of&nbsp;Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke\u2019s formative beginnings. Written mostly in 2010, before&nbsp;Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke&nbsp;was a dance music name. These songs reflect a period of unfiltered creativity and adventure in the artist\u2019s development. Not bound to any genre, this album begs for repeated listens to uncover the aural mysteries of disparate worlds.&nbsp;The production of \u2018The Early Years\u2019 involved trashy guitar amps, obscure pedals, unconventional recording techniques, and the warm hiss and warble from four track cassette recording. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tracks <em>123456789<\/em> and <em>Celeste<\/em> feature heavily overdubbed guitars and vocals, clearly My Bloody Valentine inspired. \u201cThe Figure\u201d is an eerie piano and vocal ballad describing the last moments of someone\u2019s life. The track that comes closest to dance music is <em>Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke<\/em>, (which actually inspired the artist&#8217;s name), featuring the wobbly synth line of a Juno106. Overall, this records is a dive into the artist&#8217;s deep mind and emotions, expressed in beautiful noise and overlapping melodies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke&nbsp;first teamed up with Cut Mistake Music in 2012 to release his album \u2018Thriller\u2019 under the alias John Hughes Daydream. Together again to release \u2018The Early Years\u2019, the artist and label owner Connor Whiriskey completed mixes for the album in Nashville during the 2017 solar eclipse. Having gathered dust for nearly 10 years, the songs on this album tell a story of the artist\u2019s past, as well the story of coming full circle to completion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke&nbsp;is the electronic music moniker of Jordan Lieb &#8211; producer, songwriter, and Daytime Emmy Award winning film and tv composer. A Chicago native and child of 90s house music, Jordan transplanted to New York City in 2001, where his career as a multi-disciplined musician has taken flight in many forms.&nbsp;Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke\u2019s sound draws on house, techno, new wave and post-punk. His work has featured on Andrew Weatherall\u2019s seminal Masterpiece mix series, and in Ana Lily Amirpour\u2019s 2016 indie cult film \u2018The Bad Batch\u2019.&nbsp;Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke&nbsp;has performed his unique live set around the globe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?resize=586%2C586\" alt=\"Black Light Smoke The Early Years cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-35892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?w=586&amp;ssl=1 586w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018The Early Years\u2019 track listing<\/strong><br>&nbsp;1. Up Up And Away<br>2. Springtime For Rioters<br>3.&nbsp;123456789<br>4.&nbsp;Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke<br>5.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vp29ya6dPhw&amp;list=PLc54jKGtWATRagMpd9Q7uW6yybUHxbeYB&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Burn<\/a><br>6.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/black-light-smoke-shares-single-video-for-north-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Black Light Smoke shares single + video for \u2018North Korea\u2019\">North Korea<\/a><br>7. The Figure<br>8. Celeste&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced and mixed by Jordan Lieb &amp; Connor Whiriskey during a full solar eclipse in Nashville on Aug. 21, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Black&nbsp;Light&nbsp;Smoke have shared their haunting video for&nbsp;Figure directed by Sina Taherkhani. This is a eerie track that is slow and brooding so the chosen video <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36072\" title=\"Black Light Smoke share video for \u2018Figure\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,23,28,29,30],"tags":[9887,9970,2958],"class_list":["post-36072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-music","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-black-light-smoke","tag-figure","tag-the-early-years"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/47A53522-7B91-44D2-979F-9A707C45E475.jpeg?fit=598%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9nO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35883,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35883","url_meta":{"origin":36072,"position":0},"title":"Black Light Smoke shares single + video for \u2018North Korea\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"March 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Black Light Smoke has shared the second single from Jordan Lieb's upcoming LP\u00a0\u2018The Early Years\u2019\u00a0out\u00a003.26.21\u00a0via Cut Mistake Music. 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