Lights & Motion
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Genres | Post-rock, alternative rock, ambient, shoegazing, dream pop |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Labels | Deep Elm |
| Website | facebook |
| Members | Christoffer Franzén |
Lights & Motion is a Swedish cinematic post-rock band, founded in Gothenburg 2012 by Christoffer Franzén. The project came into life after a long period of insomnia, where Christoffer chose to spend his nights in a studio in Gothenburg, writing music. The music has been described as cinematic in quality and in its reoccurring use of big crescendos.
The band has so far released four full-length albums, Reanimation, Save Your Heart, Chronicle and Dear Avalanche, all released through the American independent record label Deep Elm Records. Music from Lights & Motion have been used in many filmtrailers, commercials and TV-shows, ranging from The Oscars to the Super Bowl. in 2015, Apple featured the bands music in their global iTunes Campaign, "Latest Films. Anywhere, Anytime."
In December 2013, Lights & Motion was voted as "The Best New Artist" in the annual polls by Post-rock on Facebook, the world's largest post-rock community.
Lights & Motion was formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in early 2012 by native musician Christoffer Franzén. Originally meant as an outlet during a period of insomnia, the project was supposed to reflect the sense of a dreamlike state in which a lot of the first album was written in. However, the project quickly garnered a lot of attention online, mainly in the alternative and postrock scene, which led to them being signed by famous American independent record label Deep Elm Records, previously home to bands such as The Appleseed Cast and other prominent alternative acts. Originally a guitarist, Franzén started to experiment with writing and recording music by himself in 2011/2012, and soon came to the conclusion that just writing with the guitar was too limiting. This led to him being forced to quickly pick up all the other instruments that he felt he needed, in order to fill the space that he heard in his head.
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