here is the NFO file from Indietorrents
Original Release / Self-Released
Uploaded by masoncity 3 weeks, 4 days ago
01 New Carrion
02 Pictus
03 On Nature
04 Nicht Leiden
05 Hedges
06 Mechanical Eye
07 Blue Ink
08 Mostly Bag
09 Pool On A Plate
10 Clock Support
11 Silhouette
12 Barrel
13 Peep Hole
14 Trepanning
15 Undo
Downloaded from Bandcamp before they took it down.
Album info
One of my 10 favorite albums this year. Naked Lights are a collective of veteran Bay Area post-punkers, who’ve been at it for years now, completely flying under the radar. That should change with the reissue of this very album on Castle Face next year, but do yourself a service and check out their back catalog. Whether Erika below is right in that they’re “possessed by the ghost of late ‘70s/early ‘80s post-punk”, there’s no a hint of amateur charm. Whether they show restraint, or they’re drawn to a certain aesthetic, only seasoned musicians can execute they way Naked Lights do.
“Naked Lights are an Oakland, California quintet who seem to have been completely and collectively possessed by the ghost of late ‘70s/early ‘80s post-punk, despite very much existing within the boundaries of present time and space, or so they claim. The dub-influenced, bass-centric rhythmic fixation underpinning the scratchy, cut-up messthetic of their latest album, On Nature (currently only available in the digital realm, although hopefully that’ll change soon), points to more than a few hours spent with 1980’s Wanna Buy A Bridge? compilation LP on Rough Trade, and singer Aurora Crispin’s vocals follow the proud tradition of loopy non-linearity that goes back to her first wave post-punk godmothers in Family Fodder, Ludus or Essential Logic (I’m sure Lora Logic would also approve of the seriously skronky sax that they introduce on “Mechanical Eye”). At the risk of simply rattling off a bunch of UK DIY touchstones, the footprints of This Heat and the Pop Group are all over the warped jazz and spiky funk leanings propelling “Mostly Bag” and “Nicht Leiden,” coupled with the wiry, nervous energy of Big Flame. The period-perfect attention to detail on this thing is pretty incredible, to the point where you could almost question whether or not On Nature was actually pieced together from lost demos sent to John Peel back in the day. Bringing things thematically full circle here, further research seems to indicate that a good number of Naked Lights’ members did some time with a couple of big names in the mid/late ‘90s white belt Romulan screamo scene (who will go unnamed in this column), which I never would have guessed in a million years – the things you can find out on the internet, am I right?”
-Erika Elizabeth
http://nakedlights.bandcamp.com