3.17.13 - New Music - Lights and Owl City

Lights is one of my favorite synthpop artists, and Owl City is my favorite human, so when the two combine…well…I died.

Except this isn’t what I was expecting when I read that the two had recorded a song together. Where are the synths? Where is the beat? I might have expected something like this from Lights, but not my Owl Cityyy!!!

While it wasn’t what I was ready for, I don’t dislike the track. It is cute, and Owl City and Lights go well together. The song is actually from her 2011 album ‘Siberia’, which is being rereleased as an acoustic EP. “Cactus in the Valley” is the first single, and the original doesn’t have Owl City (and obviously isn’t acoustic). I can imagine that Lights needed something to bolster the profile of the EP, but I hope this wasn’t their one chance to collaborate. I would love to hear a real synthpop mashup from these two.