Sealight combine aspects of acoustic folk music with lush, layered guitars, expressive vocals and ambient textures to create an immersive and distinctive sound. These elements are deftly interwoven throughout the five songs that comprise the group’s debut EP ‘Dead Letters’. The lyrical content of the songs are drawn from a collection of letters and texts surrounding the lives of the group’s families in France and Australia. The letters themselves speak of travel, distance, and relationships lost and found. Fragments of conversations, responses and reactions are incorporated throughout the five songs; reliving, retracing and reflecting upon events, relationships and the lives of the correspondents.
The EP was recorded by the band at home in Paris and mixed by producer Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins/Violet Indiana). The 5-track EP is the second release from the Parisian label ‘Commission45’ following on from Heligoland’s ‘All Your Ships are White’ in 2010.
The release of ‘Dead Letters’ will be followed by a series of shows across France in late 2011 to coincide with press and radio interest in the release. Additional dates will follow throughout Europe in the first half of 2012.