ARCTIC LIGHTS: CORK DUO CUT A REGAL FIGURE

Arctic Lights are a new indie/rock band from Cork, Ireland, formed by Liam O'Callaghan (Bulkhead) and Edward Butt (Emperor of Ice Cream).

The direction of the project is something of a left-turn by O’Callaghan’s own admission, but the result of going into the process without any preconceived notions of what happens.
Much like Butt’s other project, returning shoegaze outfit Emperor of Ice Cream’s long-shelved debut album No Sound Ever Dies, the tracking, mixing, and mastering of this EP has been done remotely, with O’Callaghan returning to another long-lost passion in doing much of the heavy lifting with its post-production process.

Of course, as we’ve discussed, getting the project ‘out there’ is a much different business in the current day and age than it was in the late nineties. Consumption has changed utterly, while existing balances of power have been skewed in different ways. O’Callaghan discusses the ups and downs of getting back to the grind in 2021.