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How to Sleep When You're on Fire
Electronic · 2020 · 7 tracks · 38m

How to Sleep When You're on Fire

Lights

Seven tracks of immersive, instrumental synthwave. A neon-hued departure into late-night electronic textures, trading pop hooks for atmospheric depth.

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Lights ditches the mic for a rack of synths to create the ultimate late-night coding soundtrack.

A meditative and neon-lit journey through solitary electronic landscapes.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks · 38m
01
ChainLink
5:11
02
ExoSkeleton
5:20
03
SadBoy
4:42
04
DarkMode
6:26
05
GreenTxt
5:02
06
Softeeth
4:15
07
PalmTrees
7:36
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the rhythmic pulse in ChainLink slowly emerges from a wash of white noise.
The deep, resonant bass swell halfway through DarkMode that feels like a physical weight.
PalmTrees closing the record with nearly eight minutes of drifting, hazy melodic decay.
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