- Artist
- Display Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Long Light
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI427DIGITAL
- Release Date
- September 15, 2023
-
Vinyl 1×LP, Limited Coloured
Pre-order $29.49Dusk transparent tan & black marble dusk colour vinyl
Read MoreGI427LPC1
Estimated release date: September 29, 2023
-
Download
$9.99320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Press Release
Seattle-based producer Jeff McIlwain, aka Lusine, returns with his 9th full-length record, Long Light, marking twenty years since he first joined the Ghostly International roster. A cited influence for myriad electronic artists including London’s Loraine James and others, Lusine is known for visceral, kinetically-curious music that fuses techno, pop, and experimental composition. In recent years, McIlwain has pushed his craft skyward with more collaborative, song-forward work. Long Light shines the throughline; his signature looping patterns and textures are dynamic yet minimalist as ever. Structurally straightforward, tight, and bright, the material radiates as the most direct in his catalog, featuring vocal contributions from Asy Saavedra, Sarah Jaffe, and Sensorimotor collab- orators Vilja Larjosto and Benoît Pioulard. Lusine found his sound early on, but he’s never stopped pushing and pulling at its potential, patiently deconstructing the distractions and solving the puzzles. With Long Light, a laser-focused, process-driven artist reaches an exceptionally satisfying level of clarity and immediacy.
McIlwain sees the title, taken from the lyrical phrase “long light signaling the fall again,” written by Benoît Pioulard for what became the title track, as a guiding device that reflects several meanings. “There’s this sort of paranoia where you don’t know what is real, it’s an age of high anxiety and there are all these distractions,” McIlwain explains. “It’s like a fun house mirror situation.” Following the long light is the only true way through, and he holds that metaphor to the album’s recording, which also carried a cyclical nature akin to seasons. Like the start of fall, the album completes a period of cultivation; “Music making is a struggle and you have to have a ton of patience.” Long Light is proof that what lies beyond the noise, at the end of the figurative tunnel, is worth all the work it’s taken to get there. Across the collection, McIlwain identifies the core sonic element, a vocal cut or a simple beat sequence, from which to build everything else off. On the opener “Come And Go,” he multiplies a vocal take from longtime collaborator Vilja Larjosto into a celestial choir, evoking their Sensorimotor standout “Just A Cloud.” It’s the bass hook on the single “Zero to Sixty,” curving around the voice of Sarah Jaffe, whose pliable range and cool delivery provide the source for Lusine’s unmistakable mapping. The chorus is Jaffe’s (“cold- blooded”) line repeated in step with melodic synth pulses and the buzzing deep bass. “I feel like I am dreaming / You make me feel like I am walking on a cloud / I don’t ever want to feel the ground,” sings Asy Saavedra (of Chaos Chaos) on “Dreaming.” This time McIlwain keeps the phrase intact, making subtle tweaks to the timbre and texture as chimes, clinks, and snaps oscillate. “Long Light” has it all: Lusine’s percussive mood-building, rendered with samples from drummer Trent Moorman, and a contortion of tender poetry, courtesy of friend Thomas Meluch, aka Benoît Pioulard (Morr Music, Kranky). The album balances vocal pop motifs with some of Lusine’s strongest instrumental expressions, from ambient-minded foreshadowing (“Face- less,” “Plateau,” “Rafters”) to hypnotic head-nodders like “Cut and Cover” and “Transonic.” It is rare to arrive at a landmark work two decades into one’s craft, but through repetition, refinement, and patience, Lusine extends a defining moment, an essential piece to his discography.
Digital Tracklist
-
1
Come and Go
4:24
Buy
Come and Go
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
2
Zero to Sixty
4:48
Buy
Zero to Sixty
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
3
Faceless
3:16
Buy
Faceless
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
4
Dreaming
4:56
Buy
Dreaming
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
5
Transonic
4:16
Buy
Transonic
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
6
Plateau
3:40
Buy
Plateau
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
7
Long Light
5:17
Buy
Long Light
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
8
Cut and Cover
4:59
Buy
Cut and Cover
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
9
Home
4:18
Buy
Home
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
10
Rafters
2:59
Buy
Rafters
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
11
Double Take
5:20
Buy
Double Take
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
Lusine
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Transonic
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI427DIG2
- Release Date
- August 16, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Zero to Sixty
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI427DIG1
- Release Date
- July 19, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Retrace
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI341digital
- Release Date
- August 16, 2019
- 10″
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Sensorimotor Remixes
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI307dig1
- Release Date
- September 15, 2017
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Sensorimotor
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI287cd
- Release Date
- March 3, 2017
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Arterial Reworks
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI241dig
- Release Date
- April 6, 2015
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Arterial
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI-217
- Release Date
- August 4, 2014
- 10″
- Download
-
- Artist
- Lusine
- ReleaseProduct
- Lucky
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- 0804297817712
- Release Date
- June 24, 2013
- 12”
- Download
Ghostly International
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Mary Lattimore
- ReleaseProduct
- Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI424DIGITAL
- Release Date
- October 6, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Dua Saleh
- ReleaseProduct
- daylight falls
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI430DIG1
- Release Date
- September 20, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- Dua Saleh
- ReleaseProduct
- daylight falls
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI430DIG2
- Release Date
- September 20, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- Kate Bollinger
- ReleaseProduct
- You At Home
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI433DIGITAL
- Release Date
- September 13, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- Mary Lattimore
- ReleaseProduct
- Horses, Glossy on the Hill
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI424DIG2
- Release Date
- September 6, 2023
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Emeralds
- ReleaseProduct
- Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Expanded Remaster)
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI408XDIGITAL
- Release Date
- August 25, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Cassette
- Download
-
- Artist
- Helios
- ReleaseProduct
- Espera
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI425DIGITAL
- Release Date
- August 11, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Mary Lattimore, Meg Baird, & Walt McClements
- ReleaseProduct
- And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI424DIG1
- Release Date
- August 2, 2023
- Download
Limited Editions
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- SCALER
- ReleaseProduct
- Loam / New Symbols
- Label
- Houndstooth
- Catalogue Number
- HTH169D
- Release Date
- October 20, 2023
- 12”
- Download
- Pre-order
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- DeYarmond Edison
- ReleaseProduct
- Epoch
- Label
- Jagjaguwar
- Catalogue Number
- JAG400DIGITAL
- Release Date
- September 22, 2023
- Vinyl Boxset
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Clint Mansell
- ReleaseProduct
- Moon - Original Score
- Label
- Black Records
- Catalogue Number
- CMLP001W
- Release Date
- October 13, 2023
- LP (special)
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- dyLAB
- ReleaseProduct
- I Love Acid Twenty Seven
- Label
- Balkan Vinyl / I Love Acid
- Catalogue Number
- ILA027
- Release Date
- September 29, 2023
- EP
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- bar italia
- ReleaseProduct
- The Twits
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE2000DA
- Release Date
- November 3, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- DJ Muggs & Dean Hurley
- ReleaseProduct
- Divinity: Original Motion Picture Score
- Label
- Sacred Bones Records
- Catalogue Number
- SBR334DIGITAL
- Release Date
- October 13, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- The National
- ReleaseProduct
- Laugh Track
- Label
- 4AD
- Catalogue Number
- 4AD0679DA
- Release Date
- September 18, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download