Bitter Reflection

The latest by Arizona desert brotherhood Alex and Andrew Jarson a.k.a Body Of Light further hones their smouldering strain of tempestuous synth-pop into a transformative suite of anthems, reveries, and reckonings: Bitter Reflection. Written in the wake of 2019’s neo-EBM classic, Time To Kill, they sifted inspiration from hidden moments within their own arcana – childhood tapes, home movies, abandoned demos – asking themselves the question: “How can we make this grow?”

Sampled snippets of voice, noise, synth, and field recordings flicker in the periphery of these 11 tracks, murmuring like nostalgias half-forgotten, or displaced memories. It’s music pulled between twin flames of truth and desire, romanticisation and reality, catharsis and control, born of a bond sealed by years, dreams, and blood. 

Tracklist 

1. Get It Right
2. Strike The Match
3. This Conversation
4. Fortia
5. Bitter Reflection
6. Out Of Season
7. Never Ever
8. On This Day
9. Hyena
10. Last Repose
11. Deepcolorlights