The Black Light The Black Light Winchester/Swindon The Black Light is a progressive rock band based in Swindon and Winchester, in the United Kingdom. The band consists of Martin Bassett (Guitars, Bass, Keys, vocals) and Andrew Watt (Drums, keys, vocals), who first met and began making music together whilst at college in 1996. The band’s sound is a progressive-leaning brand of pop rock that draws influence from acts such as Radiohead, Mew, Oceansize, The Smashing Pumpkins and Agent Fresco. The focus being on writing catchy melodic hooks combined with ambitious song structures, irregular rhythms and punchy riffs. They released their debut EP Lost In the Middle in 2011, from which the song Shapeshifter was selected for airplay on BBC Radio Solent’s Introducing show. Several years later in 2017, they released their debut album All Forgotten Dreams. An ambitious first major work, it was described in the indie blogs as moody, atmospheric and melancholic, drawing comparisons with bands such as Radiohead and Gazpacho. The band have recently finished their second album Unnatural Order in 2021, which had been in development since mid-2018. As equally ambitious as it’s predecessor, it sees the band pushing themselves to new technical heights as both musicians and songwriters. The Black Light’s tracks Dinosaur by The Black Light published on 2023-03-20T21:55:52Z Try by The Black Light published on 2021-12-02T09:44:44Z Never The Right Time by The Black Light published on 2021-11-19T17:37:34Z Singularity by The Black Light published on 2018-05-23T19:02:46Z Harlequin (Edit) by The Black Light published on 2017-02-12T16:08:14Z Alarm Bells (Edit) by The Black Light published on 2017-01-30T17:42:28Z Crying Games (Edit) by The Black Light published on 2017-01-16T16:42:06Z Melody (Edit) by The Black Light published on 2017-01-16T16:21:50Z Lone Wolf (Edit) by The Black Light published on 2017-01-09T16:17:25Z
