Altered Zones

Finally-- Light Asylum have found a label to call home. After kicking around the Brooklyn scene for a couple of years now, and talking to many labels, the duo have decided on Mexican Summer. It wasn't easy though; Shannon and Bruno recently talked to Luke Carrell in their recent Artist Profile about their struggle to find the right label:

"It’s been a lot of work, I’m not going to lie... We just want to make sure it’s put out the right way, with the right intentions, rather than just slapped up on iTunes with everybody doing their Internet consumer thing. You can’t do anything as an artist, especially in “today’s economy,” without some help. So we’re looking for a label that really has our back... they want, basically your baby, wrapped in a fucking platinum and diamond-studded capsule/dildo/rapture thing… and then they’ll just take your shit and mass produce it and not give you tour support and not back the music. Then they don’t sell any units and they wonder why. If they’re not supporting the artist, how is the artist supposed to go on tour and make the music more popular than it already is so that they can sell records?"

While Light Asylum is making us wait until 2012 for the full length, stream the four-track In Tension EP on their Soundcloud and pick up a copy from Mexican Summer, available June 14th. --Ric Leichtung, Altered Zones

MP3: Light Asylum: "Dark Allies"

MP3: Light Asylum: "A Certain Person"