Lightspeed Champion Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You

• Dead Head Blues
• Marlene
• There's Nothing Underwater
• Intermission
• Faculty Of Fears
• The Big Guns Of Highsmith
• Romart
• I Don't Want To Wake Up Alone
• Madame Van Damme
• Smooth Day (At The Library)
• Intermission 2
• Sweetheart
• Etude Op.3 'Goodnight Michalek'
• Middle Of The Dark
• A Bridge And A Goodbye

After lengthy recording sessions, derailed by Dev Hynes' hiatus due to throat surgery, the former Test Icicles frontman releases his second full-length album, Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You. Recorded in Brooklyn with producer Ben Allen, the album trades the alt-country leanings of Hynes' debut for a more lush and polished aesthetic, drawing on pianos, string arrangements and 70s-style synths. Featuring two "intermissions" breaking up the album's 15 tracks, it is evident Hynes' claims of the Life is Sweet!... being influenced by musical theatre are not without merit. 

Abstract by Scott Orwig