The master producer himself, Pretty Lights, recently gave a rare interview in The Denver Post. In it, PL sheds some light on his new album, the follow up to 2013’s A Color Map Of The Sun. The way he describes it has us very intrigued.

Derek Smith moved from his native Colorado (a music scene he helped put on the map with his heady, genre-bending electronic productions) and threw a festival in May of 2016, but new music has been few and far between. 

He said :

I’m really excited about what I’m working on. I’ve got an album that’s almost ready. It’s slated for an early 2017 release. It’s not just a music record — I’m actually making a film with it, as well. 

Derek says each episode of the film is connected with one of the live shows he performed on his Episodic Festival tour this past summer and fall:

I’m trying to make a film and a record that’s really about the connection of people — the amazing things that happen between people on the same frequency. It will be an episodic thing that makes a full piece. Every song has an episode. It connects to my episodic music festival. When I was booking that tour, I wanted to call it “The Weekend’s Episodic Festivals.” I didn’t know why I wanted to call it that, but it’s all going together. Every festival, we’d have a film shoot that became the building blocks of these episodic film pieces. It’s pretty (cool)

Sounds pretty cool to us! Stay Tuned for more  updates on Pretty Lights’ new album as more information is released.

Courtesy : Denver Post
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