LIGHTNING CULT - EP2: Ether Waves (CASS)

Lightning Cult is a project created by Mike Marchant, a self-taught songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work received consistent critical acclaim during a productive period that began in 2007 and ended after a cancer diagnosis in 2012.  The August 2018 release of Lightning Cult’s “EP1: Burner” came after a four-year hiatus, during which Marchant recovered from cancer treatments and relocated from Denver to New Mexico. For the production of “EP1: Burner”, he enlisted a like-minded collaborator: Luke Carr, founder of Santa Fe-based multimedia world-building project Storming the Beaches with Logos in Hand.  “EP2: Ether Waves” is a bolder, darker, more adventurous sequel to its fairly straightforward predecessor. Marchant and Carr shared production duties, working at their own recording spaces over a four-month period. They’ve traded in acoustic guitars for overdriven, echo-drenched electrics, and expanded their sound with synthesizers, strings, drum machines, and complex vocal arrangements. “Ether Waves” is a dreamy, intricately layered song cycle that moves confidently through genres and moods while remaining grounded by Marchant’s simple, melodic compositions.

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Tracklist

EP2: Ether Waves (Side A) 
1. Intro (a haunting) 
2. Pacific Hits 
3. Drifter/Bruiser 
4. Delirio 
5. Starcave

EP1: Burner (Side B bonus content) 
1. Chrono 
2. Five Beats 
3. Southern Hemi Bluebird 
4. David and the River 
5. Two Islands

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Product Highlights

• 100 Light Blue Cassettes
• Includes Download
• Split release with Cloud Command Sound