Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming: Green Vinyl LP

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Label: Skep Wax Records
Release Date: 27th June

Yeah you think you can jangle, you got that lo-fi sound down and that childish sense of wonder blurring with the melancholy of growing up going on but can you do that indie that hits in the feels and you can't quite put your finger on why it's so good? Well Lightheaded do that. 60s sunshine pop, a bit of baroque, a little bit of surf pop, C86 and indie charm of Camera Obscura and Belley & Seb. 

Carrying on the long tradition of sentimental jangle pop songwriters, Lightheaded distil decades of lovelorn tunes into sounds for modern softies. They have the sunshine sparkle of The Left Banke and Margo Guryan, the C86 charm of Dolly Mixture and Would-Be-Goods, and the cinematic swell of Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura.

Formed on the shore of New Jersey in 2017 by Cynthia Rittenbach and Stephen Stec, Lightheaded took time to hone their sound with a rotating crew of drummers, guitarists and backup vocalists. They found a community of like-minded bands in a vast but tight-knit international indie pop scene, which eventually led them to the iconic California label Slumberland Records. Their debut cassette EP Good Good Great!, a collection of five perfect pop songs, landed in 2023, followed by the full-length Combustible Gems in 2024. A European tour and gigs opening for bands like Heavenly, The Softies and The Ladybug Transistor rounded out their breakout year.

The band signed to Skep Wax Records for Thinking Dreaming Scheming, their most collaborative and earnest release to date. A slate of five brand new songs is combined with the five tracks from Good Good Great!, now available on vinyl for the first time.  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 new 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.

Tracklisting:

1. Same Drop
2. The Lindens, The Lindens, The Lindens
3. Me and Amelia Fletcher
4. The View From Your Room
5. Crash Landing Of The Clod
6. Mercury Girl
7. Orange Creamsicle Head
8. The Garden
9. Patti Girl
10. Love Is Overrated