Nightlands

The project of Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley, Nightlands combines dreamy pop using the love of experimentation he was raised with because of his genetic engineer father. Hartley can be the bassist for the Battle on Medicines, and began focusing on his personal music in earnest when the group’s recording Slave Ambient was acquiring longer than likely to full, and released his debut recording, Your investment Mantra, on Secretly Canadian this year 2010. Though his responsibilities with the Battle on Medicines — who released Slave Ambient in 2011 — held him occupied for a lot of that yr, he also released the Completely and Addresses EPs, the second option which included a gorgeously hazy edition of Lindsey Buckingham’s “Problems.” In 2013, Hartley lowered Nightlands’ second recording, Oak Isle, which presented major-seventh chords (regarded as probably the most nostalgic-sounding harmonic grouping) in its tracks. The Battle on Drugs got a crucial and industrial breakthrough in 2014 with Misplaced in the Fantasy and authorized with Atlantic Information. Hartley didn’t abandon Nightlands, nevertheless, launching the project’s third LP, a couple of spacy love music called I COULD Feel the night time Around Me, in-may of 2017.