Naarm/Melbourne-based rock outfit Floodlights released new single “The Light Won’t Shine Forever”. It is the next track taken from their upcoming third album Underneath arriving March 21 2025 via [PIAS] Recordings.
A sweeping setting is immediately shaped in “The Light Won’t Shine Forever”, transporting to the expansive, remote landscapes that are at the core of Floodlights’ sound. As poetic storytelling creeps, layered guitars, piano lines and urgent drums bloom and build in their intensity, “The Light Won’t Shine Forever” emerges as a lesson in embracing life’s highs and unknowns – however fleeting they could be.
“The Light Won’t Shine Forever” joins recent album tracks “Can You Feel It” and “Cloud Away“, both teasing the themes and sentiments bubbling beneath the surface of Underneath, the band’s forthcoming record. Written amidst extensive touring of the UK and Europe, Australia and the US, Underneath was shaped by a surreal period in each members’ lives – full of firsts, exploring new places, playing their biggest gigs and festivals yet. Despite the transience of their new life on the road, the writing process proved a starkly intimate time marked by quiet, shared moments of contemplation. The songs that emerged represent a process of reckoning, catharsis and growth within the group, fusing the incisive societal reflections they are renowned for with more personal meditations on grief, memory and place; ultimately giving shape to myriad emotions and experiences that linger beneath the surface.
Of the track, the band’s Louis Parsons reflects that “This song explores the fleeting nature of emotions – how joy is ephemeral, how hope can be ripped away and then found again. But all these feelings are part of our pursuit of what we love, whatever that may be.
For me, life feels like a continuous effort of navigating the unknown, trying to make sense of what you experience, and figuring out how to express those feelings. It’s strange how the same experience can impact you in different ways, for example, losing control can be invigorating and refreshing but it can also give rise to a sense of dreadful angst. ‘The Light Won’t Shine Forever’ is an ode to the forever winding road”.
First gaining global attention with 2019’s EP Backyard and 2020’s critically acclaimed debut album From a View, Floodlights returned in April 2023 with their crowning second studio album, Painting of My Time, showcasing a natural progression and evolution as a band and individuals. A finalist for the Australian Music Prize, the record obtained national recognition across NME (4 stars), The Guardian, The Age, Rolling Stone, FBi Radio, Triple R, 2SER, RTR FM, PBS FM, Unearthed, triple j, Double J and more.
Across tours Australia and the world over, including sold-out shows, festival appearances at Laneway, Meredith Music Festival, Panama Festival, VIVID LIVE, Falls Festival, SXSW Austin, and supports for The Killers, black midi, Amyl & The Sniffers and Pavement – Floodlights have evolved and grown their live show into an all-encompassing experience. Having last year toured the Northern Territory for Up The Guts, an East Coast headline tour, and a UK & EU headline tour, next up they will appear at Tasmania’s Party in the Paddock festival.
Floodlights are Louis Parsons, Ashlee Kehoe, Archie Shannon, Joe Draffen and Sarah Hellyer.
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