Rock/Review Bright Shining Lights - The Sun Is A Star

Bright Shining Lights is a band from NJ. Their goal is to write music that evokes the imagination. Anchored in storytelling, they aim to take the audience on a musical journey. Their love of film and music fuels their musical fire to create a visual journey through music.

Listeners are taken on a sumptuous, cinematic journey through time, space, and the human condition with Bright Shining Lights, New Jersey's “The Sun Is A Star.” The band's second album is a masterwork of mood and feeling, a contemplative voyage that seems both expansive and intensely intimate. This album defies its beginnings with soaring production and startling ambition, while being recorded in a modest basement and sounding as though it was created in space.

Inspired by Hans Zimmer's epic scale, Radiohead's contemplative depth, and Pink Floyd's psychedelic expansiveness, “The Sun Is A Star” skillfully combines rock, ambient, and orchestral sound design elements. From hypnotic percussion that pulses like celestial orbits to shimmering guitar textures and ethereal synth layers, each track feels like a chapter in a bigger voyage.

The album's central theme is the age-old pursuit of connection and meaning. The songs beautiful yet realistic lyrics examine people's need to fit in with a universe that frequently seems limitless and uncaring. Carefully planned arrangements that rise and fall with dynamic fluidity accompany the emotional arc, which runs from longing to realization.

More than just an album, “The Sun Is A Star” has created an experience that exudes coziness, awe, and reflection. Bright Shining Lights serves as a reminder that when vision, emotion, and an unafraid reach for the infinite are present, beauty may arise even in the smallest of places, like a basement.