Pretty Lights

My best friend pointed my to a band called Pretty Lights earlier this year (bless his soul), and I figured I'd pass along the goodness. Derek Smith, the guy who is behind Pretty Lights, gives away his music for free. All you have to do is go to the Pretty Lights website and download it. If that's not enough reason to check it out, I don't know what is.

Stylistically, Pretty Lights is something different from anything I've ever heard. The best way I could convey what it is to you without actually having you listen to it would be to have you imagine something like this:

You are driving through a city late at night. Any light from the moon is drowned out by the garish colors of the various city lights shining through the windshield. Everything around you seems to blur by, a surrealistic blur of motion that never coalesces into distinguishable shape. As you drive, you feel entirely calm and relaxed, almost to the point of being disconnected. You simply cruise forward without thought or destination.

Got the image? Good. Pretty lights is the music you would be listening during this.

I introduced a friend at my college to Pretty Lights, and he had a similar response. He is a snowboarder, and he said that it made him think of cruising down some mountain on his board, gliding through the darkness, taking the occasional easy jump, and making long, lazy slashes through the snow. That sounded about right to me.

Anyway, if you're reading this and you haven't listened to Pretty Lights before, you should go and remedy that. It's some of the best cruising/chilling music that I've found.