"Bathed in Light" is a song by Canadian

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band The Dirty Nil. It was their first single off of their second studio album ''

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''.

Background

The song was released as the first single from the band's second studio album, ''

''. A music video was released on June 20, 2018, featuring the band performing the song with

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and fireworks going off near the band members. The band also released an alternate video of them performing the song live in the studio on September 13, 2018.

Themes and composition

Lyrically, the song is a tongue in cheek account of a narrator finding himself dealing with his own death, through falling down stairs or falling asleep while driving, and then embracing that he gets to see his grandmother,

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, and Jesus in the afterlife. The lyrics were described as being as if the narrator were giving his own epitaph. The song was inspired by an experience by band

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Luke Bentham, where he fell asleep in the

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and had a dream about crashing and dying a fiery death. The song was developed relatively quickly; the experience left him shook up, so he wrote down scratch lyrics right away upon awakening, and wrote the song's guitar riff at the band's next

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. A

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was also later added to the track. The song's large

sound was compared to the work of

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, White Reaper, and Cheap Trick. The song was

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by indie rock music producer John Goodmanson.

Personnel

Band *Luke Bentham - vocals, guitar *Ross Miller - bass *Kyle Fisher - drums

References

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