Lightdark

NOSOUND

CD, CD/DVD, vinyl

Burning Shed, Kscope/Snapper
Released
KSCOPE271, KSCOPE621, KSCOPE850
 
Nosound Lightdark was completed three years on from debut album Sol29, released through Burning Shed label initially and then on Kscope/Snapper.
 
Regarded already by critics and fans alike as one of the most interesting up and coming alt/art rock bands in Europe, Lightdark sees the Nosound identity evolve into something even more focused and powerful.

 

Recorded in Italy, England and the US throughout 2006 and 2007, the album develops further the promise of debut album ‘Sol29’ and exhibits a stronger group identity which reveals a greater contrast between atmospheric detail and the walls of sound created by the band on stage. 
 
Highlights include the 15 minute epic ‘From Silence to Noise’, the ethereal ‘The Misplay’ (with cellist Marianne DeChastelaine), and the epic piano/mellotron driven ballad ‘Someone Starts To Fade Away’ (which features No-Man’s Tim Bowness on vocals). 
 
Released originally on CD, then on CD/DVD with bonus tracks, and on vinyl.
 
TRACKS
 
1. About Butterflies And Children
2. Places Remained
3. The Misplay
4. From Silence To Noise
5. Someone Starts To Fade Away
6. Kites
7. Lightdark
8. Cold Afterall (bonus track)
9. Like The Elephant? (bonus track)
10. You said ‘I Am…’ (bonus track)
11. Clouds (bonus track)

LYRICS

Places Remained

I saw you outside in your own reflection
looking for friends without caution
they asked you to try again
you had to stop, but facts remained

You can say I was loosing my fight
you can say I was wrong and you were right
you were lying and keeping away
all the feelings you always complained
you can say you were loosing your mind
you can say you were feeling behind
you were looking for places around
falling down until you hitted the ground

Selling out all the emotions
you pictured your life without caption
can’t stop this because of the flow, the days,
the options and feels
the way you always deceive

You can say I was loosing my fight
you can say I was wrong and you were right
you were lying and keeping away
all the feelings you always complained
you can say you were loosing your mind
you can say you were feeling behind
you were looking for places remained
confusing yourself in the rain

The Misplay

Screen blinking bright and tired
like broken ice in thousand forms
reflecting voices we just ignored
now fingers type cold and slow
last row after last row

Today is grey outside the windows
and the wind is breaking words and breath
we should have know it’s a compromise
now the snow flakes fall from the skies
covering sounds while your echo dies

You came to me and asked why
I’m not with you if even you tried
I’m not with you every new day
I cannot say I can’t explain
I felt constrained by your misplay

From Silence To Noise

I woke up with your voice
I can’t see your face
through the door you entered by

When you say you’re not here
when you say you won’t hear
laying down on the beach of youth

You should know all the hate
in the nights we escaped by
all the love and revenge

Lands below passing by
trashing all the locks and chains
you should know what I know
it’s a struggle to let you go

Outside the rain
in the morning glow, filling roads
something flows around melting pain
always here when it starts to rain

It’s hard to say
the sacrifice
the open windows on the spring air
but silence here has found it’s way to stay

The sound of your voice
your face, flowers and sun
I still see your lips moving air
but I’m not here and you’re not there

It’s hard to say
the sacrifice
the open windows on the spring air
but silence here has found it’s way to stay

The sound of your voice
your face, flowers and sun
I still see your lips moving,
I still hear your silence and noise

Someone Starts To Fade Away

Finds himself caught
too many times
Limited thoughts,
compromised lines

When his eyes close,
when the walls fall,
Everyone knows
that he still hears your call

Someone starts to fade away
(when the walls fall,
he still hears your call)

When his eyes close,
when the dream stalls,
Everyone knows
that he’s nowhere to fall

The smell on his clothes
the chill in the air
The feelings that grow,
but are too much to bear

Someone starts to fade away
(when the walls fall,
he still hears your call)

Kites

Paths divided on the edge
defend yourself and kill the rest
it’s your rule to survive
turn your head and keep your half

‘Flowers waving in my childish fields
trains passing by far on the rails
kites were flying high in the sky
it was my game, before that night..
your dresses on the bed
walls deforming, words unsaid
glasses crushing in the night
I was terrified..’

‘It’s not a matter you’ll pay for,
don’t take on so’ you said on telephone
I’m not angry, I’m now aware
I’m just away, you’ll never know where

‘Flowers waving in my childish fields
trains passing by far on the rails
kites were flying high in the sky
it was my game, before that night..
my dresses on the bed
walls deforming, words unsaid
glasses crushing in the night
I was terrified..’

Your dresses on the bed
walls deforming, words unsaid
I didn’t want to hear your cry
can you forgive me for that night?
I should have kept you tight..

Lightdark

Now I’m thinking again
at your poison in vein
at the days passing by
now I’m lost in the night
I can see you in the dim light
and this house is so quiet
I can hear you walking outside
I still see you falling asleep
you left winning your fight

I remember the light
when we walked in the night
and the cold on the street
all the food you won’t eat
and the silence you broke
with the sound of your steps
all the dreams that we made
all the times that we played

Then that morning arrived
I was ready to go
but you failed to start
I just knew what I saw
I was feeling my legs
disappearing like yours
sliding down on the floor
trying to reach for the door

You were lying on the floor
can’t standup anymore..
now I’m walking alone
and the nights are so long
but we’ll meet in the skies
and I’ll look in your eyes
I still cry in my bed
wish you here with your smell

It’s the lightdark
it’s the lightdark
..lightdark..
..lightdark..

Cold Afterall

After walks on the strand
and your hand in his hand
things change, and so your smile
sounds right under our own lies

It’s the joke of our past
looking for when it will last
and your words and your screams
are you ready to come back again?

Lost the spell of voice and smell
all the words are faint and gone
what at last do you want?
a new cause to live or to be mad for?
now the silence is so long..
in the sky of me and you
it’s cold afterall

It’s the joke of our past
looking for when it will last
and your words and your screams
are you ready to come back again?
I can see you from the hall
leaving me in the crowd alone..
all the things that you said
spin around in this desolate land..

Now the rain has fallen
and you smiled at my face..
are you ready to come back again?

You Said ‘I am’

From door to door
regret the past
the ones we closed
the wait at last
the walls of hate
the time dilates..
this night will pass?
the skyes will turn?
the sun will set?
..the morning comes

Don’t stop fighting me
don’t stop feeling me
don’t stop hurting me
don’t stop reminding me..
..you said ‘I am..’

Shells full of love
and your darkest thoughts
enlightened and still
through the swirling clouds
melting slowly
in your sweetest laughs
wondering how
you reached me here
..you knock at my door
your wishes unclear

Don’t stop fighting me
don’t stop feeling me
don’t stop haunting me
don’t stop reminding me..
..you said ‘I am..’