It's an honor to be included on Jeff Conklin's excellent program The Trailhead. Many thanks to @thetrailhead.bsky.social for spinning Carlos Ferreira's "timepiece" on the new episode!

Thank you for the great support of the new album from Carlos Ferreira. We’re proud to present this new work exploring the balance between chaos and order. Tapes are disappearing quickly: lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/a-fail...

Thanks to @psych-wonderland.bsky.social for the kind words on Mere of Light! “… McArdle’s instrumental virtuosity and fascination with dark and mystical lyrical themes seamlessly coexist with strong pop instincts” psychotropicwonderland.com/mere-of-ligh...

With patient methods of erosion, we expose a new, secret oxide. The new album from Carlos Ferreira is drawn from themes of memory, perception, and the balance between chaos and order. An elegant act of elemental entropy. lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/a-fail...

Carlos Ferreira is a Brazilian experimental guitarist and composer creating work focused on the act of listening as a poetic and political gesture.

Thanks to @brainwashed.bsky.social for featuring a track from Mere of Light in the latest program! 🧠

Many thanks to @byroncoley.bsky.social for sharing kind words on Mere of Light in the latest issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social ! “… a counterbalance to the raging reality in which we find ourselves.“ 🙏✨

Huge thanks to @thequietus.com and @darylworthington.bsky.social for featuring Mere of Light in the new Spools Out column! 🙏✨ "... like a geography-defying sonic mirage." thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Many thanks to @darylworthington.bsky.social and @thequietus.com for featuring the new release from Mere of Light! 🙏 thequietus.com/tq-charts/mu...

✨ Many thanks to @prismreviews.bsky.social for writing on Mere of Light!

The new Mere of Light cassettes are now available through the DNT distro shop, alongside a spread of great titles from the contemporary substrata.

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Thanks to Matt Warwick for including Mere of Light in the great Glazed Over Playlist. 🍩 www.buymusic.club/list/lord_ga...

Thank you for the great response to the new release from Mere of Light! We’re excited to share this music, and your support means the world. The tapes turned out beautifully: Featuring artwork by Phoebe Mol, pressed in a limited edition of 50 copies. lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/heat-o...

✨ Many thanks to White Light // White Heat for premiering the new short film by Mere of Light! Heat of Ritual: Portals is a handmade fairytale, featuring marionettes and detailed shoebox sets created with warm sincerity by the artist herself. www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premie...

Congrats and happy release day to Mere of Light! The new album from Elise McArdle is a glowing orb of rhythm and heart, a fairy tale of dreamlands and distant worlds. lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/heat-o...

"... like childhood summers remembered in a dream" Thanks @trevlad.bsky.social for the kind words and for including Mere of Light in the latest program! www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tr...

Huge thanks to @seawindofbattery.bsky.social for spinning a track from the new Mere of Light album on the latest program via @campradio.bsky.social 🙏✨🔋 www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/batt...

"McCardle is methodically building her own, evolving world." Thanks to @sun13music.bsky.social for the kind words on Mere of Light. Full album drops next weekend! lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/heat-o...


Mere of Light is the project of Elise McArdle, an electronic producer, songwriter, vocalist, and electro-acoustic harpist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Creating music rooted in themes of magic, fantasy, and feminism, her new album offers six tracks of real-time, transformative electronics.

We're back in action with new music arriving in April! It's a good time to subscribe to our free newsletter: www.lightenupsounds.org/connect

The DNT Distro is back in action, a much needed resource. Support the analog underground! 😎

Lighten Up Sounds is back in action for our upcoming Spring campaign, w/ new cassette releases arriving in April & May. Use code "halfsies" for 50% off everything in the shop: lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com

A freshly woven spool of technicolor silk, Günter Schlienz' "Kurpark" is inspired by Nature and the books of Walter Kempowski. lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/kurpark

First post! We're gearing up to share some exciting new music in the coming months, and we're happy to connect with all the great folks on this platform. Check out the new website: RIP dot com, long live dot org! www.lightenupsounds.org