New Music: Bell X1′s “Blue Lights On The Runway”

In the US on March 3rd Ireland’s Bell X1 will release the follow up album to the highly praised Flock they released a few years back.  The new album is entitled Blue Lights On The Runway and is being released on Yep Rock.  I was a fan of most of Flock, but admittedly I  was turned off by the slower, sappier songs on it.  I was interested to see where the rise in fame would take them, but unfortunately it wasn’t higher.  Blue Lights is okay.  I feel the same way about as I did towards Flock.  Their more uptempo odes to Talking Heads songs are what capture my attention, but the slower ballads (which Blue Lights seemingly has an excess quantity of) make me drift away.  So what does that mean?  It means those three or four songs will make the car playlist and the rest of the album will fade into the nether regions of my hard  drive.  They’ll be playing the 9:30 Club in DC on March 12th and World Cafe Live in Philly on March 13th.

mp3: Bell X1 – The Ribs Of A Broken Umbrella

mp3: Bell X1 – The Great Defector

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