Blues, Dust, and Hypnosis: Pretty Lightning’s ‘Night Wobble’ Session
Pretty Lightning’s ‘Night Wobble’ session is a heady plunge into the duo’s latest instrumental freefall, a record that ditches the vocals but doubles down on the atmosphere.
Filmed in their own studio on a frostbitten January morning, the session captures four live renditions from their sixth album, ‘Night Wobble,’ out now via Fuzz Club. There’s a distinct feeling that this isn’t just a live set, but a very intimate séance of two friends riding the desert and wandering across hypnotic, blues-drenched psychedelia.
Since their inception over a decade ago, Pretty Lightning has carved a niche somewhere between fuzz-soaked garage rock and the kosmische swirl of their German forebears. But with ‘Night Wobble,’ the band leans deeper into cinematic instrumentalism, crafting a slow-burning, trance-inducing soundscape that feels like Ry Cooder scoring a lost David Lynch Western. The session brings that vision to life with plodding, ritualistic rhythms and guitars that wail like ghosts in the dust.
With their first-ever instrumental tour lined up, Pretty Lightning is embracing a transformation that began with 2022’s ‘Dust Moves.’ ‘Night Wobble’ confirms they’re not just passing through this terrain…they’re setting up camp, lighting the fire, and inviting us into the flickering glow.
The album rolls in slow and low, like a half-dead outlaw crawling through a heatstroke hallucination, guitar strings bending in the sun like melting telegraph wires…but the groove just keeps circling—lazy, hypnotic, baked in dust. The drums shuffle everything down into some slow-motion death march. You swear you’ve heard it before—maybe on some forgotten reel of film where the cowboy never makes it out alive.
And underneath it all, that feeling—that something’s just a little off, like the movie’s running a few frames too slow…Whatever it is, you’re already too far in to turn back.
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