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Lightning Bug have previously wrestled with the fragile alchemy of the artistic process. On their third album, the billowing
A Color of the Sky, singer Audrey Kang zeroes in on a fascination with self-discovery through song, contemplating musicâs ability to illuminate deeper truths in both its author and receiver, and artistic laborâs unlikely transfiguration into bliss. Underneath the recordâs enveloping shoegaze swoon, these quiet musings bring us close enough to feel the vulnerable intimacy of its creation.
A Color of the Sky is the New York groupâs most direct and fully rendered work to date: a beautiful collection of songs paying direct homage to the dreamy atmospheres, curling synthesizers, and blown-out guitars of slow-burning art rock and blistering shoegaze greats: Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, the Stone Roses. Yet Lightning Bug re-imagine this canon in the context of an entirely new plot. Like Creation
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Skipping ahead, what’s up with the lightning bugs? Is that a Marvel thing? I feel like I was missing something!
They’re just there to provide a little sentimental callback to the childhood of Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) and Yelena (Florence Pugh). Earlier they were just there to establish that their “mom” (Rachel Weisz) is a scientist via the fact that she knows science-y words like
bioluminescence. While there are obscure Marvel comics characters named Lightning Bug and Firefly, that seems to just be because there are Marvel characters named after most well-known insects.
Speaking of their childhood, how exactly do their fake American identities work, and how much did Natasha and Yelena know about the plan?
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