LITTLE MACHINES (COLV)

Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 release, the third album from the Canadian Electro rocker. When Lights first hit the music scene in 2008, she was just a songwriter with a synthesizer and a dream.. Her name may have been pluralized but Lights Poxleitner was a one-woman show who played and programmed her own instruments and sang her own lyrics. This admirable self-reliance is rare in pop - in fact, Lights, signed a publishing deal at 16 and began writing songs for other artists - but after her 2008 self-titled debut EP (precocious enough to earn her a best new artist Juno) and gold-selling full-length follow-up THE LISTENING, Lights was ready to open herself up to collaborations on her unexpectedly experimental album SIBERIA. And by choosing such leftfield collaborators as live electronic outfit Holy Fuck and rising rapper Shad, she also opened up her sound.