David Hartley is a guy who lives in Philadelphia and records music under the name Nightlands. Hartley is one of the busiest musicians in Philly’s indie-land, playing bass and guitar in BC Camplight, The War On Drugs and Buried Beds. But those projects already have songwriters in place, and Hartley was looking for an outlet for his own compositions.
His solo project Nightlands is quite literally a bedroom recording experiment. For years now, Hartley has gone to sleep with a Radio Shack standard cassette deck ready on his nightstand. The second he wakes, he records his first thoughts into a journal and transcribes them into songs that try to recapture their feeling, if not their meaning.
The music he creates is dreamy in the literal sense, using chiming strings and bubbling synths together with large choral vocal arrangements. New single All The Way is an ode to pain and reinvention. Written, recorded and mixed in one day and taken from the debut album Forget The Mantra.
Nightlands @ Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter
Source: Pitchfork, Metro (US)
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