Guiding Light Announce Debut Album Fear On My Own Time: Hear “Shackled By Lust”

The Austin combo Guiding Light includes two members of local indiepop rising stars Touch Girl Apple Blossom, but this group jangles a bit differently. Guiding Light's lo-fi self-titled EP was full of twitchy, hyperactive post-punk — the sound of virtuosic Television guitar moving at contorted Minutemen rhythms, topped off by Elise Cook's blunt German bellows and English exclamations on sort of a Kleenex/Liliput wavelength. It was cool.

Now they're dropping an album. Guiding Light's full-length debut Fear On My Own Time leads the band into higher fidelity and, if opening track "Shackled By Lust" is a bellwether, a slightly evolved sound. I'm hearing some Flying Nun in the song's anxious bashing and strumming, and Cook is sounding more melodious.

Check out the video below.

TRACKLIST:
01 "Shackled By Lust"
02 "Fear On My Own Time"
03 "Egoismus"
04 "Haare"
05 "Blau Gefleckt"
06 "Die Zunge"
07 "Pothole"
08 "Liebe Im Kapitalistischen Reich"

Fear On My Own Time is out 8/21 on Post Present Medium.