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Strange Lights / Press

“she's also emerged as something of a fixture in the Colorado music community. Irizarry is the bassist/vocalist of Colorado psych-rock band Strange Lights, which has seen more than 500,000 downloads from its website, strangelights.net. And she's the owner of Wunderground Studio, a new recording space in her arty hometown nestled against the Sangre de Cristos. ”

“I haven’t been this lit by an album since Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. “Carousel” encourages perhaps an even joyous surrender to the ups & downs of emotionality. “Liturgy” saves the day repeatedly with its boldly optimistic lyrics & Deb Zazzo’s naked voice. I recently travelled with Strange Lights to a gig at the Larimer Lounge in Denver. I had a blast.”

“The two member band creates wonderful music together that fans will enjoy listening to when they hear Strange Lights for the first time.”

“Light Bright has earned impressive reviews in both Colorado’s Music Buzz magazine and Gulf Coast Music Review website. The most interesting recent news is possibly the huge number of songs downloaded from their website, www.strangelights.net, having easily topped 300,000 songs. Deb reports that they have averaged about 25,000 tunes downloaded per month in the early part of 2010.”

““well worth your time of day.” Over a quarter million songs downloaded from their website, www.strangelights.net, so far, is proof that people all over the world agree!”

“I guess some people would say this is some strange music, even weird, perhaps. At least that was my first impression. Than you begin to listen to it and start picking out the lyrics and it all starts to fall in place. Light Bright begins to transport you into a dark and gloomy fantasy world befitting Edgar Allan Poe. ”

“You’ve found the music of Strange Lights. And you’ll never, ever be the same. ”

“Strange Lights comes off primarily as Psychedelic Pop with nice Gothic undertones, lead by outstanding female vocalist, Deb Zazzo, who also plays bass. Her partner in crime is Lonny Roth on guitar, who also serves as a vocalist. The band is rounded out by a rotating cast of drummers and various cats on keys, guitars, banjos and mandolins, but they end up nailing the post-modernist Moody-Blues-meets-Glee/Psychedelic-Furs”

“Strange Lights is a male-female duo from Colorado whose new release, "Light Bright", is full of tunes with a dusty, Western folk rock feel”

“With pervasive folk, psychedelic, pop and rock influences, as well as totally different but equally unusual personal backgrounds, Strange Lights is coining the term “Short Bus Pop” as their style — which they freely admit dances on “the fine line between genius and retardation.””

“in September, over 3000 downloads of this band's cover of the classic R&B tune, "Just My Imagination", by fans worldwide were tracked, and their original composition, "Carry the Stone", hit number fourteen, of 13,239 tunes listed in the alternative/indie category of the SoundClick website.”