Album review: Lights - 'The Listening' (Warners)
We didn’t think it would be possible to get electro-pop more painfully saccharine than Owl City . But then along comes Lights: a Canadian cross between that Postal Service copycat and Ashlee Simpson. Unsurprisingly there’s little of value...
Edinburgh The Venue
It should be perfect. From their no-thrills stage clobber to their neatly-pruned facial hedging, Wandsworth fivesome Lights have all the trappings of your classic, reliable rock band. For starters, there's singer Anthony Cunningham 's...
Doom
Lights Doom (Backyard) "We are gonna be massive," assert Lights . "And that's not just belief, that's fact." Well, gosh! Haven't heard such a challengingly original boast on the part of a band since... ooh, Superstar . Whether...
Lights : Dare to dream
Four scruffy young men from the outskirts of London with The Passion and The Belief and, hopefully, nascent drug habits because, fingers-crossed, The Lights could just be the New Rock Band we've been waiting for for so, so long. At least, that's...
