"McCardle is methodically building her own, evolving world."

Thanks to @sun13music.bsky.social for the kind words on Mere of Light. Full album drops next weekend!

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Thanks so much for sharing the tunes! 🙏

The full album arrives next weekend, with deluxe art editions and mauve-swirl cassettes featuring original artwork and lettering by Phoebe Mol. @phoebemol.bsky.social

Listen and reserve your copy today: lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com/album/heat-o...

Through patient echolocation, an essential optimism emerges: love, acceptance, and freedom of self. These themes ground the album's mysticism in pure, elemental momentum. 'Heat of Ritual' dwells in threshold states, feeling through the darkness for what's true and lasting.

Working alone on the floor with folk harp, analog synthesizer, drum machine, and voice, McArdle processes and arranges each instrument through a refined process of multitrack sampling. Romantic, fleeting, and edged with danger. #electronica #ambient #experimental


Mere of Light is the project of Elise McArdle, an electronic producer, songwriter, vocalist, and electro-acoustic harpist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Creating music rooted in themes of magic, fantasy, and feminism, her new album offers six tracks of real-time, transformative electronics.

We're back in action with new music arriving in April!
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The DNT Distro is back in action, a much needed resource. Support the analog underground! 😎

Close-up of a marbled purple cassette tape shell with a small white logo and the catalog number “LUS-139” printed beside the spool window. The cassette rests against green plant leaves on a wooden surface, with “© 2026 Mere of Light” partially visible along the lower edge.

Lighten Up Sounds is back in action for our upcoming Spring campaign, w/ new cassette releases arriving in April & May. Use code "halfsies" for 50% off everything in the shop: lightenupsounds.bandcamp.com

A freshly woven spool of technicolor silk, Günter Schlienz' "Kurpark" is inspired by Nature and the books of Walter Kempowski.

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We reached out to him a few years ago asking about an official repress of this one too! Probably a lot of people have asked other than us, haha. One of the best!

First post! We're gearing up to share some exciting new music in the coming months, and we're happy to connect with all the great folks on this platform.

Check out the new website: RIP dot com, long live dot org!
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