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The Rebel Light: Music Saved My Life

• 6th May 2015

We couldn’t help but fall in love with this new track from The Rebel Light – hazy, retro-sounding Southern-Californian indie rock just in time for summer? Sign us up. What’s more, it came with this charming little back story…

“Music saved my life…and so did moving to California.

A few years ago I moved to the West Coast. I was in a band that I didn’t believe in, playing songs that I’d written but felt soulless. Fortunately for me that band fell apart. When we started The Rebel Light, nothing was planned and no direction was discussed. We just let the music take control and simply stopped caring about what or who we should be or sound like. Most importantly we just ignored all the bullshit and just started playing what we felt in our hearts.

The culture and those infamous California vibes began to seep into our soul and penetrate every part of our music. We became truly inspired by our new world and our sound slowly began to evolve, taking in the past and present sounds of the California landscape. We think we have finally found our own voice and hope that our music does an okay job at representing our new home.

We have really tried to embrace that DIY spirit and produce/engineer all our own music, recording vocals in a bathroom and the drums in a woodshed. We started reaching out to some radio stations ourselves and so far people seem to like what we are doing.”

Good news folks, we do indeed like what you’re doing – more please!

Listen to ‘Strangers’ here and download for free: