Ultra Lights

Ultra Lights

Pleasure's All Yours

Chunklet

Fortune favors the brave. And lordy, nobody has been more rewarded than I have by stumbling into the brilliantly crafted world of Ultra Lights. It started innocently enough when I witnessed their second show, appearing on a stacked bill that included locals Bizner and Arbor Labor Union and the Dutch phenom band Lewsberg. After their opening set, I went up to guitarist/vocalist John Robinson and asked if their closing song was a cover, because it sounded so dang familiar. An earworm for the ages, if you will. Yeah, it was that annoyingly catchy. Maybe was it a Fang song? That Sunday night signaled the beginning of my torrid love affair with Ultra Lights.Ultra Lights’ first release was “Nostalgia.” At the time it was unquestionably their best song. “Nostalgia will eat the young”? Are you serious? That still stops me in my tracks. The two subsequent singles were equally all killer, no filler. The six-song 12” that collects all three singles is equally spotless. I’ve got zero notes. The band has played New York (including a WFMU session!), Chicago, Nashville, and anywhere else that’ll take them. Left in their wake are fans like me who are convinced that Ultra Lights is their new favorite band.Enter Pleasure’s All Yours. A record that, by any reasonable metric, is a stone-cold masterpiece. Not just compared to records by other bands in Georgia or, more broadly, the South. No, I mean that in the great history of recorded music, this is up there with the...

Ultra Lights

Six Song 12-inch

Chunklet

Ultra Lights. A band for barely a bit over a year, Chunklet has had the privilege of putting out their first three singles all of which quickly went out of print.Freshly remastered by Dan Dixon, the three singles are as cohesive as a 12-inch record as anything out there. Hit after hit. Hook upon hook. It just never stops. And the crazy thing is, Ultra Lights have literally just started.This 12-inch shows a band absolutely killing it at cruising altitude. The unofficial title of the record is "Sangles and Jangles" and I really can't find fault in that.Artwork by thee Nick Hollomon.