{"product_id":"mystery-lights","title":"Mystery Lights","description":"Personnel: Mike Brandon (vocals, guitar); Luis Alfonso Solano (guitar); Kevin Harris (organ); Nick Pillot (drums).\u003cbr\u003eAudio Mixers: Gabriel Roth; Wayne Gordon.\u003cbr\u003eRecording information: Daptone Records (2015).\u003cbr\u003ePhotographer: Sacha Lecca.\u003cbr\u003eWest Coast natives Mike Brandon and Luis \"L.A.\" Solano have been tweaking their version of fuzz-toned garage and psychedelia since their high-school days in Salinas, California. Over the years, the Mystery Lights underwent a number of lineup changes and a cross-continental relocation for their founding members before settling down to work as a New York band marrying city punk grit with classic garage fervor. With a handful of EPs and one full-length behind them, the retooled lineup eventually found home on retro-minded Daptone's rock imprint, Wick Records. In fact, the Mystery Lights are the label's inaugural release, and from the sound of their 2016 self-titled LP, they've landed in the right spot. Tonally, the album is a bit of a time capsule as the Lights go whole-hog down the Nuggets-era rabbit hole. The chirping Farfisa organs, the biting reverb-soaked riffs, and Brandon's rasping yelps all feel unearthed from some mid-'60s vault. After an instrumental fanfare of an intro, they make their opening shot with \"Follow Me Home,\" a gritty, minor-key rocker with some solid group call-and-response backing vocals and enough sweaty menace to mean business. With its snaky organ and stuttering vibrato, the midtempo \"Candlelight\" again dances around in a minor key before revving up into a frantic freakout in its latter half. The Mystery Lights give off the feeling of a wild and even dangerous live band and it comes across here on record. ~ Timothy Monger","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46024161198367,"sku":"823134900127","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/d623a4d58b3357e8114da10913f14a86_da5e3436-e20e-4a09-a492-8db4947954bc.jpg?v=1780143527","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/mystery-lights","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}