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Guiding Light is a musical collision between Chuck Davis (Pete International Airport, Stanley Love Performance Group) and Jason Sebastian Russo (Mercury Rev, Pete International Airport, Hopewell). The pair performed/produced/recorded their forthcoming album, Weird Pains, in damp Brooklyn basements and rural Nova Scotia, and recruited talents Erin Tonkon (David Bowie, The Damned) to mix and Heba Kadry (Ty Segall, Beach House) to master.

Though electronica, part of Weird Pains (out in 2020) channels the country singers of Chuck’s youth, not in sound, but in the liberal reinterpretation of other people’s work, à la Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson. The rest of the downtempo psych pop record is comprised of poignant originals that play like mankind’s end credits, and the combined effect is a melodic dissertation on the failings of men and their gods, with a glimmer of hope. File under: dancing while crying.