Single Release: Lighthouse

The art of anticipation

When my band Job Creators started writing the first songs for our upcoming album, “Love Monster” (coming out next week on October 13!), it was around January 2020. Shortly after that, the pandemic suddenly closed like a fist around everything that we used to know.

We wrote a lot of the other songs at a distance as we processed that unreal feeling of eternal uncertainty and tried to make a sound out of some new rythm (more on that in the last post about “Heart Race.”)

“Lighthouse” began in the summer of 2020 when my then-girlfriend and I headed back to an empty New York where, every night at seven, Frank Sinatra blasted from somewhere down below in the hollow streets as people clanged pots and pans for first responders reporting for a new round of duty (more on that here).

Despite all of the chaos of anticipation, I still felt the overwhelming need to propose to my girlfriend: to make something solid. I didn’t want to do it anywhere, either - I wanted to do it on Roosevelt Island in front of the lighthouse where I had fallen in love with her years ago.

The tapping bass riff that would become “Lighthouse” attempts to emulate the careless expectation in which we hold each moment when we know, somewhere, that we are getting closer to a new source of light and life. The sound itself becomes brighter and faster as the song continues until the crescendo: where, in all the waiting we had done before, the moment we had expected all along arrives and time slows down to a crawl. Maybe, in witness to those moments we know will last forever, we even fall to one knee.

Want to listen to the full song? Check it out on Apple Music - and pre-order the full album! - or listen on Bandcamp here. The entire “Love Monster” album will be available on October 13 on all major music and streaming platforms!