A few of you may have heard about the band, Lights. This band is originally from Canada; the first album to be released was The Listening. The band consists of one lead female singer, Valerie Anne Poxleitner. However according to wikipedia, she changed her legal name to Lights Poxleitner. (Although as we all have come to find, validity is still unknown when it comes to wiki).
Lights brings about a type of sound that is uncommon (to me at least) in the music world today; electric pop, or as it is also called on Lights' official website (http://www.iamlights.com/about) " Intergalactic-Electro music". Also, on a random note Lights' voice has a Cyndi Lauper-esque type sound or pitch to it.
In her music, she tries to incorporate sounds which sound as if they might come from outer space, such as from "Saturn's rings or a meteor belt." This last quote is what sparked my interest to check out her music further.
Her music alone is not only art, but her music videos are also artsy; what with her videos portraying cartoon/live fantasy type themes in some. To give you guys a sample of Lights' music, here is the music video of her first single "Saviour".
A few of her other songs "Lions" and "Face Up" I find are uplifting, and to me this is one of the important qualities to music. Here is a video from Youtube for the audio of:
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