Are you a fan of Owl City (aka Adam Young)? If so, you will enjoy LIGHTS. To put it another way, if Adam Young was reincarnated as a girl, he’d be LIGHTS. Somehow, someway Young discovered LIGHTS, added her to his Spring Tour 2010 lineup, and she’s gained in popularity ever since.
Born Valerie Anne Poxleitner, LIGHTS legally changed her name to Lights Valerie Poxleitner and started her music career back in 2002. She’s a 22-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter and has that same synth-pop vibe that Young so expressively gives off in his music. She says her influences include Björk, Phil Collins, and ABBA. She’s known to cover other artists like Coldplay, Architects, and Collins.
In 2008 she came out with her debut six-track EP called LIGHTS. “Ice,” “Drive My Soul,” and “February Air” have music video counterparts, and they’re each embedded after the break. One year later she released a second EP called Saviour. It includes 4 tracks; two of them are remixes to the song “Saviour.” That track also has a music video. In 2009 she finally dropped her first album, The Listening. The 16 track album contains mostly a combination of songs from the two EPs, plus a few new selections. Later that year she dropped a third EP; The Ice Pack contains the album version plus six remixes of the song.
And that brings us to today. Having met her musical soulmate in Adam Young while on tour with Owl City, what better way to celebrate their uniting than with a collaboration? Yesterday her fourth EP found its way to iTunes; this version of Saviour includes the original track plus an Adam Young remix and a new music video to go along with it. Listen to “Saviour (Adam Young remix)” below and check out the music video for it (and the others) after the break.
[audio: LIGHTS – Saviour (Adam Young Remix).mp3]
So, what do you think? Does this world long for a female counterpart to Owl City? I think it does.
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