Various Successes I’ve Had is one of the best records I have acquired this year. That record is so pleasurable that I cannot dare to delete a track from it in my bereft-of-memory iPod; starting off with “Conviction I” to the highlight “Gold Light,” the album flows into a continuum of beauty. I had tried researching who’s the man behind Flashing Red Lights but it led me to Herculean results unrelated to the band.
Visiting Flashing Red Lights Bandcamp again earlier this week proved to be a fateful day. Not only I found out that he had just released a new EP but a tag that led to his identity.
Flashing Red Lights is the moniker of Glendale’s Mack Slevin, a musical project that has spanned over two EPs and a remix single.
“Weekday” by Flashing Red Lights
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For a bona fide festival experience, the 2012 Singapore St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival will utilize two stages plus added more acts amounting to 14 for next year’s event happening on February 12. After its groundbreaking debut this year at Fort Canning which brought Deerhunter, Foals and Beach House, Laneway ante up a notch higher by the aforementioned improvements plus its roster of much- buzzed about acts of the year. While it is still no comparison with 
October 29, 2011 • 12:19 am 0
Between You And Me: Oh It’s You
According to Abramson, Oh It’s You came about after waking up from a dream that involved “a beautiful girl I had once dated showed up at my door hoping to rekindle our relationship,” and the feelings that came after realizing the bittersweet truth of being alone. The result of this experience demonstrated weeks of recovering these flickers of sadness, delving deep on how memory pokes us into our most ardent feelings. While most of us get some ice cream or watch a movie instead, Abramson orchestrated four nocturnal tracks that play along with such powerlessness to change reality.
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