Hamburg psych rock / garage psych band Blackbird Mantra have dropped their new single “Neon Lights“, alongside a music video.
The track is out now through La Pochette Surprise Records. Get it here.
“Neon Lights” is a straightforward garage rock song that immediately takes you on a journey. Over the course of 3:30 minutes, nocturnal city scenes flash before our inner eye. During the songwriting process, singer and lyricist Timo Grimm was fascinated by the simultaneity of stories that take place in just one night in the big city. Self-experienced and fictional scenes blur into an ever-accelerating plot.
Helge Schritt’s drums and David Gradl’s bass drive the track forward. Towards the end of the track, as so often with Blackbird Mantra, it becomes psychedelic, with lead guitarist Thies Lingner’s riffs spiraling ever higher. Neon Lights is a hymn to nightlife and euphoria.
Speaking about it, Timo says:
“Neon Lights is all about that feeling of being out and about at night. Wandering the streets, partying, having spontaneous adventures. The lyrics were written at the end of the corona period when none of that was possible. And then I remembered all kinds of things. Some of the stories in the song I really experienced (the taxi story, for example) and others I made up. The song is the soundtrack to one of those crazy nights where one thing leads to another and you just get involved in the crazy energy of the night.”
Watch/listen below.
Photo credit: Nat Aurore Glaze
