The Stargazer Lilies breathe colour into the void. Their latest transmission from Winter Haven, Florida, Love Pedals, out now via Little Cloud Records and Floravinyl Records, moves like phosphorescence across black water. It is an album born of collision: shoegaze dreamstates tangled with the molten flow of ambient and the narcotic drift of psychedelia. Kim Field and John Cep, the duo at its heart, draw on a shared history that stretches back to their Soundpool days, where shoegaze met disco under a mirrorball. Now, with Love Pedals, they scatter pollen into the cosmos and let it fall where it may.
Shining Yellow, the record’s luminous centerpiece, arrives like meteors breaking the stratosphere: feedback turned to firework trails, chords stretched until they resemble entire atmospheres. Field’s voice hovers above it all, distant yet tender, like a transmission intercepted through astral static. Cep’s production stretches space wide open, painting with delay and distortion until the edges blur, then blur again. James Aparicio’s mix sharpens the haze into something that cuts as much as it caresses. Together, they sculpt an track that feels like a broadcast from a parallel future: equal parts beauty and ruin, velvet and voltage.
The video, directed by Shana Nielsen (Sha Sabi of United Ghosts), is a dazzling spectacle where the ordinary mutates into the uncanny: a lawn becomes a stage for surreal pageantry, a giant caterpillar serves as transport through warped suburban Eden, and a house dissolves into end-of-days reverie. AI multiplies the band into kaleidoscopic clones caught between bliss and collapse. The effect is equal parts carnival and nightmare, like Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes rewritten under strobe lights.
Beneath its veneer, Shining Yellow carries an unspoken warning. It whispers about control hidden in the circuitry of pleasure, about systems designed to devour rather than nourish. Soylent Green, here, is no longer food – but a metaphor for the endless appetite of spectacle. The song itself defies that mechanism, however, offering something achingly human: sound turned into bloom, memory pressed into vibration.
Watch the video for “Shining Yellow” below:
With Love Pedals, The Stargazer Lilies continue their journey as gardeners of hallucination. Their music does not arrive politely; it seeps under the door, coils around your ankles, and pulls you upward into its pollen-lit sky. Listen to two tracks below and order the album here.
The Stargazer Lilies first national tour was on the Graveface Roadshow in 2013. Since then TSL has toured Northern Europe, South America, Canada and the United States extensively sharing the stage with such notable artists as Whirr, Nothing, Ringo Deathstarr, LSD and the Search for God, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Best Coast, Tobacco, The Veldt, Acid Mothers Temple, Film School, Asteroid #4, Glixen and many more. They’ll be hitting thr road throughout September on the West Coat.
Tour Dates:
- 9/2 Los Angeles, CA – The Goldfish
- 9/3 San Francisco, CA – Kilowatt
- 9/4 Portland, OR – 6 Below
- 9/5 Eugene, OR – John Henry’s
- 9/6 Everett, WA – Seagaze Fest
- 9/7 Boise, ID – Neurolux
- 9/8 Salt Lake City, UT – DLC
- 9/9 Las Vegas, NV – The Usual Place
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