The Big Bright Lights - Take Manhattan

Artist: The Big Bright Lights Title: Take Manhattan Catalog#: Mud-CD-030 Price: $10.00	Tracks on this CD:
	This Is Not A Test
	Dream In Color
	Lay Down For The Stars
	NOVA
	Is This The End?
	Never Look Away
	Take Manhattan
	The Sound From A Town
	Digital Distortion
	Springfield Avenue
	Getting Close To Summer

Finally! This melodic guitar-rock album recorded in 1997 by Jeff Garber (ex-Castor, current member of National Skyline and On) and Derek Niedringhaus (ex-Castor, ex-Sarge, current member of Centaur) can be heard by the world outside. The Big Bright Lights (name-checked on Promise Ring's "Very Emergency" album) sound like the blessed union of National Skyline's atmospheric vocal apogee, the glorious multi-textured guitar-tempest that is/was Swervedriver, and the unadulterated rock-sense of brainy rock bands like The Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, and Shiner. The Big Bright Lights have been referred to as the "missing link" between Castor's soaking wet guitar sound and emotive vocals, and National Skyline's mind-expanding Pro-Tools intricacies. The songs that comprise "Take Manhattan" were conceived and recorded after Castor's demise and prior to Garber hooking up with Hum/Honcho Overload member Jeff Dimpsey to take the National Skyline name (previously a quasi-improvisational live quartet) to the "next level". Having steered National Skyline through both space and time, and across the country last Summer in a touring van prone to engine fires, Jeff Garber spent the last half of 2000 recording and endlessly tweaking The Skyline's new album (File 13 Records). We're pleased that we can now bring you this "nearly lost" Big Bright Lights recording.