Bright Lights & Faded Signs

With their fifth studio album, Bright Lights and Faded Signs, Moossa continues to produce strong, eclectic, lyric-driven original rock. The album represents the band’s coming of age in a multitude of respects. Songs seamlessly flow one into the next in a collage of snapshots of life’s daily struggles: lost love and family, finding peace and one’s place in the world. The themes are expressed over powerful grooves, riffs, and infectious hooks. There is an inherent unity in the band’s diverse mix that suggests a wide range of influences across many genres, including rock, country and R&B. Bassist and songwriter Ryan Davis penned the majority of the songs and anchors the tunes with strong, clever and melodic playing like that heard on “Center of it All”. Singer Nancy Waldman’s vocal tracks are simply top notch and she controls her powerful instrument with artful nuance on stand out cuts like “Leave it Alone” and “Fall”. Guitarist Trey Batts weaves subtly textured guitar lines throughout the compilation and paints vivid landscapes with tone and tremelo. Trey’s standout work on the record includes a large role in the mixing process of the recording. Band founder John Moossa rounds out the group’s sound with an edgy vocal that rumbles and drawls on “Told You So”  and the sweetly manic delivery on “Laughin’ Cryin’”. The album was written and conceived over a series of stripped down rehearsals and then recorded locally in Oregon Hill at Minimum Wage Studio. Minimum Wage owner and Engineer Lance Koehler commands the drums on half of the tracks, and the band’s newest member Dennis Vignola delivers an enthusiastic cadence on the remaining tracks. The band celebrates its tenth year of playing with the CD release party on Fri Jan 27, 2012 at Bogart’s. The CD will be available at the show and online via outlets such as CDBaby and iTunes.