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Bitter Reflection

by Body of Light

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1.
Get It Right 04:00
Step into the light You tried to crawl but then you broke the ice It’s hard to relive Caught in a cage with just a little advice And even when the sky’s blue I could never come through unprepared I took it all for granted Memories are branded Keep them there It’s gonna take a long time Before we get it right This time Ohhh It’s gonna take a long time Before we get it right This time Ohhh Step over the line It’s something calling from the other side But what do you give Played the game and then you paid the price And even when the sky’s blue I could never come through unprepared I took it all for granted Memories are branded Keep them there (Don’t have to give) Ohhh (Don’t have to give) (Don’t have to give) It’s gonna take a long time Before we get it right This time Ohhh It’s gonna take a long time Before we get it right This time Ohhh (Don’t have to give) (Don’t have to give)
2.
I fall asleep to the candlelight Things will be different, But not tonight It wouldn’t be like you to strike the match, Over and over, I can’t understand When we’re left alone, No one to provide, Will you feel it in your bones, Or will you run and hide? When the seeds been sowed Can you pick a side? Tell me, do you feel at home Or will you live a lie? Never too late when you don’t look back A moment of weakness, Forget the past It wouldn’t be like you to strike the match, Over and over, I can’t understand When we’re left alone, No one to provide, Will you feel it in your bones, Or will you run and hide? When the seeds been sowed, Can you pick a side? Tell me, do you feel at home Or will you live a lie? And when you said to me, That nothing comes for free I had to redefine What it means to bleed When we’re left alone, No one to provide, Will you feel it in your bones, Or will you run and hide? When the seeds been sowed, Can you pick a side? Tell me, do you feel at home Or will you live a lie?
3.
Let’s elevate those expectations in your head There’s no solutions just confusion that’s been said No sense in trying while you’re lying in your bed This conversation doesn’t help this sense of dread But it’s never enough, It’s never enough, It’s never enough I’m not one to give up on love But its never enough, It’s never enough, It’s never enough Let’s celebrate this hesitation you’ve been fed No substitution for delusion that’s been spread Your will is dying And I am trying And I am finding a new way This conversation takes the weight without amends But it’s never enough It’s never enough But it’s never enough Its never enough But it’s never enough It’s never enough (No, it’s never enough for you) It’s never enough (No, it’s never enough) But it’s never enough It’s never enough (No, it’s never enough for you) It’s never enough But it’s never enough It’s never enough (No, its never enough for you) It’s never enough (No, it’s never enough) But it’s never enough It’s never enough (No, it’s never enough for you) It’s never enough
4.
Fortia 03:31
[Instrumental]
5.
What are you waiting for? I can feel you far away But no one’s on the other end, And it’s too far too late If you get the message, I never left this line If you call I’ll ask for another day ‘Cause I don’t wanna let go It’s a bitter reflection spinning out of time Distantly bound, The wall’s coming down ‘Cause I don’t wanna let go… One foot through the door I wanna see you face to face Nothing’s ever indirect, And it’s never too late If you get the message, I never left this line If you call I’ll ask for another day ‘Cause I don’t wanna let go It’s a bitter reflection spinning out of time I won’t come around right now ‘Cause I don’t wanna let you down
6.
Touch me baby Let me see your eyes Feel you so unsatisfied Touch me maybe We can live another life No time, Call it for another day I want to be alive But you want a vision of another time So color in between the lines But save it for another life If it falls down through the ceiling As our love grows out of season I’m lost again Am I locked out of the meaning? ‘Cause I can’t define the reason Out of time We don’t even have tonight No reason left to fight Don’t even have tonight Woke up today and you were on my mind You won the game Come on and take your prize It’s tough to say But now I realize that Time is short, Never wait another day I’ll take this hill to climb This futile lullaby Won’t take these limitations no, I just might save it for another life If it falls down through the ceiling As our love grows out of season I’m lost again Am I locked out of the meaning? ‘Cause I can’t define the reason Out of time We don’t even have tonight No reason left to fight Don’t even have tonight
7.
Never Ever 03:36
Don’t you wonder Where you’ve been? Let it underneath your skin Now it’s plain to see My mind, my fantasy Outside reality, It’s made of nothing Now that it’s severed We leveled the score Never forever We laid on the shore Another endeavor I never made the case Can you really ever see it face to face? Take me underneath your wing Steal my thunder Bring me in Can you feel the wind? In the night… But you never let me win. Now that it’s severed We leveled the score (Steal my thunder) Never forever We laid on the shore Another endeavor I never made the case Can you really ever see it face to face? (Bring me in) Now that it’s severed We leveled the score Never forever We laid on the shore Another endeavor I never made the case Can you really ever see it face to face? (But you never let me win)
8.
On This Day 03:02
Falling for me Anything is possible Taking over When I move, We move, We’re one Now you’ve got them saying, I cannot believe it Now you’ve got me praying, I can finally see it My strangest feeling on this day (On this day) Please tell me everything’s ok I used to know just what to say (What to say) Now I just guess along the way Calling your move Making truth impossible Faking outcomes When you lose you’ll say you won Now you’ve got them saying, I can not believe it Now you’ve got me praying, I can finally see it My strangest feeling on this day (On this day) Please tell me everything’s ok I used to know just what to say (What to say) Now I just guess along the way My strangest feeling on this day (On this day) Please tell me everything’s ok I used to know just what to say (What to say) Now I just guess along the way
9.
Hyena 02:28
[Instrumental]
10.
Last Repose 03:51
It’s nights alone like this one You feel them wash away (Live through what I’ve, Live through what I…) The stars, alone in the sky, You step into another life (Live through what I’ve, Live through what I…) This time you’ll never know what you’ve found You have been through enough I must have been called to Live through what I’ve been, Live through what I’ve been Even when it’s good enough It’s just a little more ’til we die Nowhere to run, just hold on Such an atrocity (Live through this, Live through this) And when you see the world, Look like its breaking down There’s one thing that’s waiting I’m yours I’ll wait until the sound You have been through enough I must have been called to Live through what I’ve been, Live through what I’ve been Even when it’s good enough It’s just a little more ’til we die Live through what I’ve been
11.
[Instrumental]

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OUT June 30th, 2023.

The latest by Arizona desert brotherhood Alex and Andrew Jarson aka Body Of Light further hones their smoldering strain of tempestuous synth-pop into a transformative suite of anthems, reveries, and reckonings: 'Bitter Reflection.' Written in the wake of 2019’s neo-EBM classic, 'Time To Kill,' they sifted inspiration from hidden moments within their own arcana – childhood tapes, home movies, abandoned demos – asking themselves the question: “How can we make this grow?”

Sampled snippets of voice, noise, synth, and field recordings flicker in the periphery of these 11 tracks, murmuring like nostalgias half-forgotten, or displaced memories. It’s music pulled between twin flames of truth and desire, romanticization and reality, catharsis and control, born of a bond sealed by years, dreams, and blood.

Working with Telefon Tel Aviv co-founder Josh Eustis in Los Angeles, the brothers incorporated an expanded array of live instrumentation – piano, bass, saxophone, acoustic guitar – in addition to vintage Akai samplers, Moogs, and archaic hardware, giving the album an eclectic, unpredictable palette. Opener “Get It Right” showcases their impressive refinement: sleekly cold drum machinery builds to a swooning chorus of synths and piano, then suddenly slips into a dream sequence bridge of strummed guitar and echo-shrouded vocals, before surging back to the main melody. Throughout, the songs shift gears and moods in evocative ways, as if bending to fleeting thoughts or lengthening shadows. Simmering synth lament “Strike The Match” captures the Jarsons’ unique technique of co-crafted lyrics, accruing meaning as the world turns; though written long before, the track ended up being recorded the day Russia invaded Ukraine (“I fall asleep to the candlelight / things will be different but not tonight / it wouldn’t be like you to strike the match / over and over, I can’t understand”).

A trio of intriguing instrumentals deepen the album’s scope, echoing the duo’s early experimental era as part of the influential Ascetic House collective. “Fortia,” “Hyena,” and “Deepcolorlights” drift in a prismatic gauze of whispered synths and oblique minutia, in the spirit of Boards of Canada at their most hushed and haunted. Elsewhere the record spins through a gallery of the band’s ongoing fascinations: Depeche Mode- esque declarations of dread and excess (“This Conversation”), brooding dance floor epiphanies (“Out Of Season”), smooth Thomas Dolby city skyline melancholias (“Never Ever”), lovesick looking glass ballads laced with Art Of Noise orchestral stabs (“On This Day”). A new age demands new waves, and Body Of Light belongs at the forefront of a resurgent generation fusing modern methods with the sounds of futures past. Singer Alex Jarson sees their muse clearly, at the axis of anguished transition, temporal collapse, and, just possibly, the brink of hope: “Time is dysphoric. The dream breaks down. Everyone’s beginning to panic, but in the end something will come from it.”

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released June 30, 2023

DAIS195

Written by Alexander Jarson and Andrew Jarson
Produced by Joshua Eustis
Mastered by Josh Bonati
Electric Guitar on "Bitter Reflection" & "Out Of Season" by Joshua Eustis
Fretless Bass on "Bitter Reflection", "Never Ever" & "On This Day" by Joshua Eustis
Saxophone on "Never Ever" by Charles Gorczynski
Cover photography by Jamie Parkhurst
Designed by Collin Fletcher

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