Starting with synthetic pulse and orchestrated strings, “Motherfuckers” opens with the lyrics, “Another beast is here to terrorize,” and later finds Lightburn repeatedly singing, “I’ve given up everything.” “A Thousand Light Years” has Lightburn chanting the word “war” over electronic blurps that seem straight out of 1986 the song also features the choice line: “If I could slit that throat…I would, without a shred of remorse.” “Through Storms” brings more of a minimalist soul groove, but the singer sounds no happier: “It’s a hostile, cruel world waiting out there, with no promises and no answers, just disaster.” Sonically, MASS:LIGHT is something like electronic neo-soul for goths, but it’s the lyrics that are most telling. Said bio, which Lightburn presents with sentences redacted for reasons unknown, describes MASS:LIGHT as an “incredibly personal” album about “denial, regret, and reconciliation…love and sacrifice.” To listen to the album, Lightburn’s intense, passionate vision comes through like a blow to the head. A bio he wrote for the project explains how he kept the deeply personal album to himself for more than 18 months, not letting anyone hear it until he was ready. Secondly, Lightburn completed MASS:LIGHT entirely on his own dime, releasing it on his own Ting Dun imprint. Firstly, for MASS:LIGHT, Lightburn played all the instruments, constructing all the album’s sounds, save for some strings and brass.
Murray Lightburn’s debut solo album is something of a departure from his work with The Dears, the Montréal-based outfit he has headed for 18 years and five albums.
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