New album – Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You – 1^st February 2010

We are very excited to announce that Lightspeed Champion has returned with his second album, Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You. The follow-up to 2008’s Falling Off The Lavender Bridge is an epic collection of twelve pop songs, two instrumental intermissions and one piano étude, set for release on 1^st February 2010.

Lightspeed’s early leaning towards American country dressings is traded here for a palette that draws on classical music and even musical theatre. Producer and mixer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley) assembles the eclectic grab-bag of influences: joltingly ‘70s guitar and synth sounds, classical piano, Greek choruses shouting reprisals, and at least one ukelele-driven moment.

All tracks on Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You were written and arranged by Dev Hynes.

Watch a sneak preview of the video for forthcoming single Marlene (25^th January 2010) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHUHxKbTEU

Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You will be available on CD (WIGCD235), vinyl (WIGLP235) and via digital download (WIG235D). The tracklisting is as follows: 

1 – Dead Head Blues                                          9 – Madame Van Damme

2 – Marlene                                                      10 – Smooth Day (At The Library)

3 – There’s Nothing Underwater                           11 – Intermission 2

4 – Intermission                                                12 – Sweetheart

5 – Faculty Of Fears                                           13 – Etude Op.3 ‘Goodnight Michalek’

6 – The Big Guns Of Highsmith                           14 – Middle Of The Dark

7 – Romart                                                       15 – A Bridge And A Goodbye

8 – I Don’t Want To Wake Up Alone