Track Listing
1) Waiting
2) Let's not Speak
3) Hang On
4) I See You
5) Hour on the Floor
6) Evil Twin
7) HWY 99
8) City Scape
9) Night Train

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CITY LIGHT
"Down the Pacific"
Release Date: April 29th, 2008

City Light was started by Seattle singer songwriter Matthew Shaw with long time friend and Bay area producer Nick Andre [Gift Of Gab/Blackalicious, Lateef the Truth Speaker/Quannum, Bicasso/Living Legends and Lunar Heights]. As the project progressed they called upon Omaha musician and producer Denver Dalley [Desaparecidos, Statistics and Intramural] and Seattle singer songwriter Andy Fitts [Airport Cathedral and Aqueduct]. Together the four of them worked to create one record from three corners of the country that mixed genres of indie-pop, rock , and hip hop. The end result is a dark and unique pop record full of catchy tunes, experimental electronica, and gritty beats.

+ Mixed by Justin Cronk at the Toy Box, Seattle, Washington
+ Mastered by Kevin Bressler at Whiney Cat Mixing Suite, Seattle, Washington
+ Additional guitar on "Waiting" by Arwani Geo
+ Additional vocals on "Let's Not Speak" by Brian Pake
+ Additional guitar on "I See You" by Garrett Lunsford

"City Light is a long-distance collaboration, a la the Postal Service, between Seattle singer-songwriter Matthew Shaw, Bay Area producer Nick Andre, Omaha's Denver Dalley, and Seattle's Andy Fitts. The result of their far-flung efforts seems, oddly enough, strongly tied to a particular environment: the urban spaces inhabited by restless, struggling youth. "HWY 99" is about life on Aurora, "where the Super 8 is a Hilton / and sirens are lullabies." The less-gloomy "Let's Not Speak" reworks the oft-reworked formula of "opposites attract": "You like poets / I like movie stars / I like records / You like hits / We both hate sunny days." It sounds like a sped-up Casiotone for the Painfully Alone record: fragile, longing vocals over gritty guitars and synth-tomes, with some bumping electronic beats."
- Michael Connelly, Seattle Sound

"If you?re into moody, haunting, electronic indie-rock, you would do well to check out City Light...the moments that shine do so very brightly"
- Independent Clauses

"I am most interested in the debut of City Light. It is a project from singer-songwriter Matthew Shaw that works with a few artists across the country (a la a more ambitious Postal Service)"
- Chris Burlingame @ Three Imaginary Girls

"Undiscovered Band of the Month, March 2009"
- Filter Magazine