​Marfa Lights (from the album Marfa Lights

​Marfa Lights (from the album Marfa Lights

​Marfa Lights (from the album Marfa Lights as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)


A commercial for Ford’s Ranchero series begins the song cycle for Marfa Lights’ recent self-titled release. The vehicle is a central figure in the story that unravels over the course of the album. The tale centers on a Gen X’er making a road-trip trek from Colorado through Texas and down to Mexico City. Sitting behind the wheel of old Ford Ranchero, recently inherited from his father, with nothing but a case of 8-track tapes for entertainment and Jack Kerouac’s incomprehensible Mexico City Blues. The adventurer looks back at life decisions, acknowledging his failures as he answers the siren call of the Southwest desert lands. As he rides, his thoughts take a virtual turn when he considers how technology has intersected with popular culture. Once surrounded by the beautiful people and traditions of Mexico, our hero realizes Jack Kerouac was right when he said ‘I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it, and the rest of my life to do it’. Marfa Lights sings a contemporary tale. A road fable that mirrors a million stories that came before as it creates a bridge of traditions for the future adventurers. 
 
Sonically landing somewhere between Calexico and Vandoliers, Marfa Lights offer diverse musical accents that flicker across solid beats, Southwest guitar strums, and a wandering Tex-Mex trumpet. The album sees the world changing when it acknowledges that some pieces of life are becoming lost in “Nobody Reads the Paper Anymore” as Marfa Lights follow strict guitar chords into “Tulum”, citing other stops with the spoken word short of “Terlingua and the Truth” and the bright bounce of “Mexico City”. Taking time to dance, Marfa Lights spins a Latin rhythm in “The Wolf (Bossa Nova)” and slows the pace for the sway of an instrumental referencing “A Cross Chihuahua”. Spaceships blips and choral harmonies introduce the nostalgic 70’s style that rides underneath “8 Track Cadillac” as Marfa Lights conjure up a Rock’n’Roll rhythm in “Heart Like a Bruise”. (by Danny McCloskey)


Listen and buy the music of Marfa Lights from AMAZON
 
For more information and purchase options, please visit Marfa Lights website