Due for release on the 16th September 2016, Mixtape Saints are streaming their ‘Bright Lights Burned Out’ EP in full.
“The brakes were slammed on and we needed to take some downtime since life got pretty heavy for everyone,” Sam Moloney told us, explaining the band’s relative silence in recent years. “In short we all had a lot stuff going on with mental health/money worries/family/housing and employment problems etc. We weren’t able to tour and kind of ended up having a bit of break to try and sort life out a bit.”
“For me I guess it’s mostly about growing up and finding out that life can be pretty vicious,” Maloney continued. “A lot of the opportunities that we were told existed when we were younger just didn’t materialise, so this song is kind of about finding a way to get past that and maybe take something back for ourselves. To be honest I think most of our songs tend to be a mix of hope and desperation, which is just fine by me!”
Head over to The Punk Archive now to stream the record in full ahead of release.