Siberia

When electro-rock sensation Lights first hit the music scene in 2008, she was just a songwriter with a synth and a dream. She was a one-woman show who played and programmed her own instruments and sang her own lyrics. After releasing her debut album The Listening, Lights was ready to open herself up to collaborations on her unexpectedly experimental album Siberia. By choosing to collaborate with live electronic outfit Holy Fuck, and rising rapper Shad, she opened up her sound. Siberia's beats skitter and thwack, the retro electronics fire like decomposing lasers and the analog synths dirty up her trademark pretty melodies, propelling Lights' emotion-soaked but still-cute croon into her sprawling, imperfect new sound.