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We have a new video for our song, "The Dark" that will be premiering at the Hudson Valley Film Festival August 12, 2025! The song, inspired by retro gothic sounds, is an electro gothic lullaby with a kick celebrating the beauty in places and things sometimes defined as dark. The music video is in turn inspired by retro gothic video, themes and images. A love letter to the dark, the camera follows a black hooded figure through a cemetery as dusk falls. The stone and wood interspersed with images of ink, paper, flame, fur, sky and lightning. Like a truly dark room supports quality rest, these images provide peace in a world of the artificial; a connection to the past and to a part of us that exits in quiet alone.
We will be doing an online premiere also and will post time/date here, on our socials and via our newsletter (sign up above, it's the only way to communicate with you directly and not get buried by social algorithms)
Director: Cass Vincent
Editors: Vincent Kaprat, Cass Vincent
Colorist: Vincent Kaprat
Music: Cassandra Vincent and Philip C. Peters
Mastering: Philip C. Peters
Mixing: Justin Michael Tallman
We will be doing an online premiere also and will post time/date here, on our socials and via our newsletter (sign up above, it's the only way to communicate with you directly and not get buried by social algorithms)
Director: Cass Vincent
Editors: Vincent Kaprat, Cass Vincent
Colorist: Vincent Kaprat
Music: Cassandra Vincent and Philip C. Peters
Mastering: Philip C. Peters
Mixing: Justin Michael Tallman
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NEWS:
Bloody Sticky Stuff in Feature Creep online gallery, of hypermodern horror, with a detailed response to the song:
Light Shadows’ Bloody Sticky Stuff is a synth song, very much in the vein (yes, there will be vascular puns in this. Or, you could say, there will be blood) of what we used to call darkwave and/or industrial back in my day. Basically goth meets EBM, (electronic body music) a sort of warehouse gothic with elements of dark disco. Light Shadows’ particular take on the genre (which likely has a different name nowadays) expertly threads the needle of being a stylistic throwback without ever feeling stale or gimmicky. Carrying forward the mood and vibes of goth’s heyday, as well as its clarity of purpose, while remaining contemporary in its outlook and presentation.
Read Full Response: featurecreep.net/WhyBlood.html
Bloody Sticky Stuff in Feature Creep online gallery, of hypermodern horror, with a detailed response to the song:
Light Shadows’ Bloody Sticky Stuff is a synth song, very much in the vein (yes, there will be vascular puns in this. Or, you could say, there will be blood) of what we used to call darkwave and/or industrial back in my day. Basically goth meets EBM, (electronic body music) a sort of warehouse gothic with elements of dark disco. Light Shadows’ particular take on the genre (which likely has a different name nowadays) expertly threads the needle of being a stylistic throwback without ever feeling stale or gimmicky. Carrying forward the mood and vibes of goth’s heyday, as well as its clarity of purpose, while remaining contemporary in its outlook and presentation.
Read Full Response: featurecreep.net/WhyBlood.html
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"Wall Grenade” is fast, fun, and upbeat. It’s sonic imagery will put you into a nightclub-like scene comparable to the one in “Cabaret” when Liza Minnelli sings “Life is a Cabaret”- LGTWO
About the Band
Light Shadows was formed in Los Angeles, after an appropriate mourning period for the post-punk band they originally met in. They’ve been compared to Eurythmics and described as having darkwave, 80s electro and alternative sounds. Inspired by gothic elements and multiple genres, they use analog instruments alongside synths and clean strong vocals.
Band members Cassandra Vincent (vocals, synths, lyrics) and Philip Peters (synths, guitar, bass, percussion, vocals, lyrics) quickly began performing around LA and started to release music in 2019. The pandemic stopped their shows and saw them ending up on separate coasts, but it didn’t stop their music.
They released singles in 2020 and were featured in Black Serpent Press’s Small Band Saturday. In 2021 two singles were in the Artefaktor top 20 and another two singles from their ever first EP in 2021 landed in the Artefaktor top 10 at #9 and #4 in two consecutive weeks alongside genre defining artists including Erasure, BlakLight, Actors and Dave Gahan.
Their audience started growing in 2022 with “Spooky”, “Hey Ho (Synth Carol)” and “Wall Grenade”, their first song with a music video.
In 2023 their "Wall Grenade" music video was an Official Selection of the Hudson Valley Film Festival, and later Roost Arts Hudson Valley short film fest and the Royale Film Festival in Arizona. They also dropped two double releases "An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Synth)"/"An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Alt)" and "Bloody Sticky Stuff (Synth)/Bloody Sticky Stuff (Alt)", honoring one of their early ideas of releasing a single song in two very different styles.
Their music video for "The Dark" is an Official Selection of the 2025 Hudson Valley Film Festival and will premiere there August 12, 2025. They are planning a physical release called "Remix the Heart Remix the Blood" that will include "The Dark" as a bonus track.
Band members Cassandra Vincent (vocals, synths, lyrics) and Philip Peters (synths, guitar, bass, percussion, vocals, lyrics) quickly began performing around LA and started to release music in 2019. The pandemic stopped their shows and saw them ending up on separate coasts, but it didn’t stop their music.
They released singles in 2020 and were featured in Black Serpent Press’s Small Band Saturday. In 2021 two singles were in the Artefaktor top 20 and another two singles from their ever first EP in 2021 landed in the Artefaktor top 10 at #9 and #4 in two consecutive weeks alongside genre defining artists including Erasure, BlakLight, Actors and Dave Gahan.
Their audience started growing in 2022 with “Spooky”, “Hey Ho (Synth Carol)” and “Wall Grenade”, their first song with a music video.
In 2023 their "Wall Grenade" music video was an Official Selection of the Hudson Valley Film Festival, and later Roost Arts Hudson Valley short film fest and the Royale Film Festival in Arizona. They also dropped two double releases "An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Synth)"/"An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Alt)" and "Bloody Sticky Stuff (Synth)/Bloody Sticky Stuff (Alt)", honoring one of their early ideas of releasing a single song in two very different styles.
Their music video for "The Dark" is an Official Selection of the 2025 Hudson Valley Film Festival and will premiere there August 12, 2025. They are planning a physical release called "Remix the Heart Remix the Blood" that will include "The Dark" as a bonus track.
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Cassandra Vincent
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Philip Peters
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Cassandra Vincent
Cassandra’s first job was as the youngest singer in a regional opera company at 17. She continued as an actor/singer/dancer on stage and film with numerous side trips into specialty arts, directing, and writing and starting her own company, Credits include four seasons in Anthony Minghella’s “Madama Butterfly” at the Metropolitan Opera, and the first stage performance of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" in LA, She eventually came back to her first love of writing and performing original music. She conceived, performed in, directed and edited Light Shadows' first music video which was an Official Selection of the 2023 Hudson Valley Film Festival and recently performed the band's music as a featured artist for the OCNY Arts Council fund raising gala.
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 Philip Peters
Philip is a multi-instrumentalist who got his start in the notorious punk clubs of San Francisco. He started the band Quiet Room at the beginning of the new wave & post-punk movements including songs "She Sits Alone" and "Pictures in the Attic." Quiet Room opened for Duran Duran during their first US tour and also played with Gang of Four, Echo and the Bunny Men, The Stranglers, The Cramps and others. Philip has written and recorded multiple albums and singles as a solo artist and performed with many other bands including Mortal Boy and the short lived post punk band Cracked Lashes where he met Cassandra.
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"Bloody Sticky Stuff" on Whitelight-whiteheat.com weekly dark synth roundup in December and on their Soundcloud November playlist
