Spooky Action At A Distance is the second album from Lotus Plaza, the solo nom de plume of Lockett Pundt, better known as the guitarist in Deerhunter. Pundt has penned a number of the best songs on the last two Deerhunter albums, and his first album, The Floodlight Collective was a tour de force of guitar pop smarts.
He has the uncanny ability to build soaring, melodic gems from simple musical phrases; a möbius strip of a guitar line and repeating clipped drum roll in “Strangers”; a tribal drum beat holding down the foundation on “Out of Touch”; two acoustic guitar chords and a slight bit of snare as the basis for “Dusty Rhodes”; a series of slowly descending piano chord scales on “Jet Out of the Tundra”.
There is a wide variety of songs and moods here, from unabashed rockers such as “White Galactic One” and “Monoliths”, acoustic laced introspection on “Dusty Rhodes” and “Black Buzz”, to the lysergic electronics of “Remember Our Days”.
Spooky Action at a Distance is a wide angle view of what should be the zeitgeist of contemporary guitar pop.
Selected Discography:
The Floodlight Collective LP kranky 2009
Lotus Plaza / Odonis Odonis split 12” Palmist 2011
Lotus Plaza / Nice…
Read MoreSpooky Action At A Distance is the second album from Lotus Plaza, the solo nom de plume of Lockett Pundt, better known as the guitarist in Deerhunter. Pundt has penned a number of the best songs on the last two Deerhunter albums, and his first album, The Floodlight Collective was a tour de force of guitar pop smarts.
He has the uncanny ability to build soaring, melodic gems from simple musical phrases; a möbius strip of a guitar line and repeating clipped drum roll in “Strangers”; a tribal drum beat holding down the foundation on “Out of Touch”; two acoustic guitar chords and a slight bit of snare as the basis for “Dusty Rhodes”; a series of slowly descending piano chord scales on “Jet Out of the Tundra”.
There is a wide variety of songs and moods here, from unabashed rockers such as “White Galactic One” and “Monoliths”, acoustic laced introspection on “Dusty Rhodes” and “Black Buzz”, to the lysergic electronics of “Remember Our Days”.
Spooky Action at a Distance is a wide angle view of what should be the zeitgeist of contemporary guitar pop.
Selected Discography:
The Floodlight Collective LP kranky 2009
Lotus Plaza / Odonis Odonis split 12” Palmist 2011
Lotus Plaza / Nice Weekend split 10” Audraglint 2012
Press Quotes for The Floodlight Collective:
“Pundt has created a remarkably buried, but brisk, and tangled, but tempered sound.” Popmatters
“Accessible and elusive at the same time, The Floodlight Collective is an addictive debut.” All Music Guide
“But against all of these trends and certainties, The Floodlight Collective exudes something astonishing and rare, particularly for a record on the fringes of indie rock, scoping into abstraction. It is, more than anything else, sincere.” Cokemachineglow
“This is, undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful records of this year, and its very indistinctness forces you to go back to it over and over. What you lose in clarity, you gain in pure buoyant energy.” Dusted
“The Floodlight Collective is a gorgeous album filled with seemingly endless melodies that glide, drip, and melt into one another.” XLR8R
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