“…their self-titled debut-album is a real gem in terms of melancholic, intense rock music.”
After the release of the digital compilaton “No spark (extended)” containing the best of three years playing under the name Sleazy Romance, the five guys from the student-town Uppsala made Europe really sharpen their ears for the swedes. Described as new music for a new era and a pure and honest expression of feelings they headed for the studio and started to record their debut album.
But after spending another long swedish winter in the studio they felt that something had to change. The kind of not so genre suiting name Sleazy Romance was changed to a, for many people just as contradictive one, light in your life.
But what is more life lightening than to ease on your heart and do what you love? The singer Johann says:
“Our music is a result of too many beers in the company of good friends, lonely nights in front of crappy television, the will to feel like you’re in a movie, the will to feel something real for once, girlfriends that just want to be friends, the joy of creating the best mixtape in the world and a thousand other things that finally made us get our shit together and record an album.”
The selftitled debut album was released 19th of june 2009 on the german labels afmusic and Danse Macabre backed up by their swedish agency NM. And this time the praised swedish quintet has not just made Europe, but also people oversea to listen to their dark, melancholic and post-punk sounding pop-music.
light in your life are Johann Bernövall on vocals, André Hammarstig on drums, Erik Nyberg on guitars, Ilian Afsahi on bass and Oskar Bernövall on guitars & backing vocals.
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“The vocal, the whole album in fact, becomes celebratory – a wild, intoxicated, reeling gypsy campfire dance. Listening is like being flung around in the air by trapeze artists.”
- BRETT SPACEMAN, [SIC] MAGAZINE
The somber indierock delivered by Sweden’s Light In Your Life on this eponymous full length debut stands in agonizing contrast to their name. Despair and melancholy rule and at best you’ll find only a fragile flicker of hope below in the mournful lyrics, often touring the not-so-great sides of love.” – PETER KROGHOLM, ALLSCANDINAVIAN