Lightheaded

Lightheaded - Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming (album)

Name: Lightheaded - Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming (album)
Brand: Lightheaded
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PRE-ORDER NOW - RELEASE DATE 27 JUNE 2025

New album from Lightheaded, combining five brand new songs with the five tracks from their Good Good Great! cassette-only EP.

LP (green vinyl) and CD.

US customers, please order via https://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog.

EU/EEA customers, please order via https://www.skepwax.bandcamp.com.

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Skep Wax have teamed up with legendary US label Slumberland Records to release Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming, the new album from LIGHTHEADED.

Carrying on the long tradition of sentimental jangle pop songwriters, Lightheaded distil decades of lovelorn tunes into sounds for modern softies. They have the sunshine sparkle of The Left Banke and Margo Guryan, the C86 charm of Dolly Mixture and Would-Be-Goods, and the cinematic swell of Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura.

Formed on the shore of New Jersey in 2017 by Cynthia Rittenbach and Stephen Stec, Lightheaded took time to hone their sound with a rotating crew of drummers, guitarists and backup vocalists. They found a community of like-minded bands in a vast but tight-knit international indie pop scene, which eventually led them to the iconic California label Slumberland Records. Their debut cassette EP Good Good Great!, a collection of five perfect pop songs, landed in 2023, followed by the full-length Combustible Gems in 2024. A European tour and gigs opening for bands like Heavenly, The Softies and The Ladybug Transistor rounded out their breakout year.

Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming is their most collaborative and earnest release to date. A side of five brand new songs is combined with the five tracks from Good Good Great!, now available on vinyl for the first time. Recorded bi-coastally with Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor) and Alicia Vanden Heuvel (The Aislers Set, Poundsign) and drenched in lush reverb on tape by Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me), the new songs are rendered in a dreamy soft focus that perfectly suits their starry-eyed themes. Adding to all the fun are the cameos and contributions from the new generation of New York indie pop goodness, featuring members of Starcleaner Reunion and Trinket, pushing the songs on this record to a high point in the young band's discography.

The opening track (and first single) Same Drop sets the tone. An uncanny pop song, it sounds like it comes from the past and from the future, all at once. There is something unusual about this band - something truly special.

TRACK LIST

Same Drop

The Lindens, The Lindens, The Lindens!

Me and Amelia Fletcher

The View From Your Room

Crash Landing Of The Clod

Mercury Girl

Orange Creamsicle Head

The Garden

Patti Girl

Love Is Overrated

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