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NEWS:
Our first music video is in the Hudson Valley Film Festival, August 2023!
Check out our YouTube playlist with BTS videos and a festival edit forthcoming
Listen to our previous release "An Empty Heart Burns Fast"
Our first music video is in the Hudson Valley Film Festival, August 2023!
Check out our YouTube playlist with BTS videos and a festival edit forthcoming
Listen to our previous release "An Empty Heart Burns Fast"
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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. 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.
They are currently working on a concept album inspired by their love of sci-fi and focus on a positive rather than dystopian future.
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. 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.
They are currently working on a concept album inspired by their love of sci-fi and focus on a positive rather than dystopian future.
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Cassandra Vincent
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Philip Peters
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Cassandra Vincent
Cassandra's first gig was singing with a regional opera company at 17. She's also fronted a punk band, acts in theatre & film, is a trained dancer and a writer/blogger among other things. In NYC she was performing in Anthony Minghella's "Madama Butterfly" at the Metropolitan Opera while at the same time doing original macabre cabaret performances in the East Village. |
 Philip Peters
Philip got his start in the notorious punk clubs of San Francisco in the late 70s. Philip's band Quiet Room was part of the beginning of new wave & post-punk in the US. They played with bands like Duran Duran, REM, Echo and the Bunny Men, The Stranglers and others. Philip has recorded as a solo artist and performed with many other bands including in the short lived post punk band Cracked Lashes where he met Cassandra.
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NEWS:
2023
November 18 - Cassandra - private premiere of a new Light Shadows song from a concept album the band is working on
November 13 - Double release (second two of an upcoming EP) "Bloody Sticky Stuff (Alt)" and "Bloody Sticky Stuff (Synth)"
"Wall Grenade" music video is an Official Selection of the Hudson Valley Film Festival 2023
July 1 - Double release (first two of an upcoming EP) "An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Alt)" and "An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Synth)"
March 31 - New Single "Faith Right Now" to be released on all platforms - An addictive funky bass line powers this pop crossover with Philip on lead vocals
2022
December - Light Shadows releases holiday tune "Hey Ho (Synth Carol)" based on a Renaissance round
October - The band's gothic cover of "Spooky" arrives in time for Halloween
Light Shadows releases their first music video for "Wall Grenade"
The cabaret inspired "Wall Grenade" single is released
2021
October - Light Shadows makes the Artefaktor top 20 twice with "Magic Underground (Echo mix)" at #4, and "You to Me (Echo Mix)" at #9, from their EP "Echoes From The Underground"
Cans Headphones reviews "Echoes From The Underground"
September 30 - Release of Light Shadows' first EP "Echoes From the Underground"
July - The band makes the Artefaktor top 20 twice with "People Don't Believe Light Shadows Shadow Mix)" at #14 and cover of The Cure "A Strange Day" also at #14
July - Cans Headphones reviews "People Don't Believe"
July - "People Don't Believe (Echo Mix)" released
2020
French site KRAC Radio publishes profile on Light Shadows kracradio.com/artistes/light-shadows/
December 16 2020 The band shares some of their electronic influences on UK radio show In The Moog with Chris Watts
"The Dark" listed on Italian site Whitelight-Whiteheat November 3 2020 line up
New Single "The Dark" played on In the Moog, RadioTFSC, Pluto Radio
New Single "The Dark" available on Spotify Youtube Amazon AppleMusic and more December 2020
New single "Da Da Boom" as a dance break for Inbox Dance Party and their October 2020 Spotify playlist
Light Shadow's "Da Da Boom" released on Spotify and other streaming services October 2020!
Interview on the Dark Mark Show
Black Serpent Press covers Light Shadows
Pluto Radio puts Light Shadows in their rotation
"Church" played on RadioTFSC (Germany)
"Church" played in the UK by RadioWIGWAM and In The Moog show on NCCR by Chris Watts
"(not so) Silent Night" played in the UK Christmas Day 2019 on the In the Moog show on NCCR
2023
November 18 - Cassandra - private premiere of a new Light Shadows song from a concept album the band is working on
November 13 - Double release (second two of an upcoming EP) "Bloody Sticky Stuff (Alt)" and "Bloody Sticky Stuff (Synth)"
"Wall Grenade" music video is an Official Selection of the Hudson Valley Film Festival 2023
July 1 - Double release (first two of an upcoming EP) "An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Alt)" and "An Empty Heart Burns Fast (Synth)"
March 31 - New Single "Faith Right Now" to be released on all platforms - An addictive funky bass line powers this pop crossover with Philip on lead vocals
2022
December - Light Shadows releases holiday tune "Hey Ho (Synth Carol)" based on a Renaissance round
October - The band's gothic cover of "Spooky" arrives in time for Halloween
Light Shadows releases their first music video for "Wall Grenade"
The cabaret inspired "Wall Grenade" single is released
2021
October - Light Shadows makes the Artefaktor top 20 twice with "Magic Underground (Echo mix)" at #4, and "You to Me (Echo Mix)" at #9, from their EP "Echoes From The Underground"
Cans Headphones reviews "Echoes From The Underground"
September 30 - Release of Light Shadows' first EP "Echoes From the Underground"
July - The band makes the Artefaktor top 20 twice with "People Don't Believe Light Shadows Shadow Mix)" at #14 and cover of The Cure "A Strange Day" also at #14
July - Cans Headphones reviews "People Don't Believe"
July - "People Don't Believe (Echo Mix)" released
2020
French site KRAC Radio publishes profile on Light Shadows kracradio.com/artistes/light-shadows/
December 16 2020 The band shares some of their electronic influences on UK radio show In The Moog with Chris Watts
"The Dark" listed on Italian site Whitelight-Whiteheat November 3 2020 line up
New Single "The Dark" played on In the Moog, RadioTFSC, Pluto Radio
New Single "The Dark" available on Spotify Youtube Amazon AppleMusic and more December 2020
New single "Da Da Boom" as a dance break for Inbox Dance Party and their October 2020 Spotify playlist
Light Shadow's "Da Da Boom" released on Spotify and other streaming services October 2020!
Interview on the Dark Mark Show
Black Serpent Press covers Light Shadows
Pluto Radio puts Light Shadows in their rotation
"Church" played on RadioTFSC (Germany)
"Church" played in the UK by RadioWIGWAM and In The Moog show on NCCR by Chris Watts
"(not so) Silent Night" played in the UK Christmas Day 2019 on the In the Moog show on NCCR
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"Bloody Sticky Stuff" on Whitelight-whiteheat.com weekly dark synth roundup in December and on their Soundcloud November playlist
