Meet Headlights, a US female-fronted five piece who make Yo La Tengo-esque indie pop with echoes of My Bloody Valentine and Phil Spector. Ahead of the release of the ‘Remixes’ on 8th December, Headlights are over in Europe on tour from Champaign, Illinois, and are also giving away the remix of ‘Cherry Tulips’.

Click here to download ‘Cherry Tulips’ (TJ Lipple mix)

Catch them at the following venues over the next week:
October
24 Newport @ Le Pub
25 Exeter The Cavern Club
26 Belfast Auntie Annies
27 Dublin Whelans
28 Leeds The Faversham
29 London Brixton Windmill
30 Paris, France @ Le Nouveau Casino
31 Freiburg Germany @ Waldsee

If there was one thing that Headlights, the Champaign, IL saccharine pop trio (Brett Sanderson, Erin Fein, Tristan Wraight), lacked on its remarkable but scattershot debut Kill Them With Kindness it was focus. Unlike their namesake some of their pop illumination yawned wide when it should have been exacting. Their new self-produced follow-up (Some Racing, Some Stopping) promises to shed their indie pop light in one steady direction. After a full two and half years of touring (over 300 shows!) the band needed a breather and so they settled down in an old farmhouse (like fellow Illionis native Andrew Bird) outside of Champaign and slowly plotted out their return. Vocalist/keyboardist Finn puts the band’s new approach succinctly as a need to “capture the moment of a new song.” Continue Reading