LEAGUE OF LIGHTS RELEASE PERSEPHONE FROM LATEST ALBUM, DREAMERS DON’T COME DOWN
Prog duo League of Lights release another track from their incredible album, ‘Dreamers Don’t Come Down’
The album is Richard and Farrah West’s third outing as League of Lights and is a strong follow up to their previous album ‘On A Night Like This’
The album has received rave reviews so far. Farrah’s voice being branded as the secret weapon, recent single’s have included 2021, which Stoakes Media Premiered as part of our Advent Calendar, other singles include Lines in the Sand, Dreamers and The Collector.
Check out new single ‘Persephone’ below, directed by North Macedonian film director Peter Zdravkovski:
Farrah explains that the genesis of the song’s lyric came about during the first lockdown in March 2020 when “I was thinking about the awful dark shadow that was about to envelop the UK and felt sadness for the families who were losing loved ones and not able to be present. I am aware of people who, facing death but living to tell the tale, have spoken of it as an actual person willing them on their final journey. I wanted to tell the story of the shadow looming, but to seek out and focus on the light rather than the darkness. We were thinking about how to talk about death without using the actual word and settled on Persephone, who was the unwilling wife of Hades and the queen of the underworld in Greek Mythology. It seemed a slightly more poetic way of singing about the topic.”
She continues: “Rich had a piece of music that seemed a bit too jolly for such a serious set of lyrics, but actually turned out to be perfect and stopped the whole song sounding morbid. I call it the jaunty song about death but it has this amazing energy to it and I really can’t wait to play it live.”
The album ‘Dreamers Don’t Come Down’ was released on the 12th March, with Maximum Volume Music declaring “Farrah’s voice has a rich and varied range that flourishes with Richard’s musical dexterity” and Red Guitar Music stating the album is “A terrific record that artfully blends elements of ’80s pop-rock, electronica and progressive art/rock without missing a beat”
Head over to League of Lights website for more information
