The blood of the youthful is the most invigorating. The spirit of the ideal is the most potent. Lauren Zettler is the best kind of example of both of these sentiments with her music as the electro-pop songstress, Lightyear. She's so plainly emotive through her style and her words that her songs can strip you [...]

Lightyear is the solo electro-pop project of songwriter Lauren Zettler. With her debut EP All Of The Miles, Zettler stretches the boundaries of both electronic pop music, and of the trope of the singer/songwriter. She imbues the cool, glitchy beeps and pops with warm basslines that are undoubtedly alive, and takes traditional narratives of love, loss and forgiveness and breathes new life into them with lush instrumental landscapes. Read more »
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You might know her from previous releases as Lauren Zettler but boy has there been a revamp and we're loving it. Her new project, Lightyear , is about to release their first EP in September/October titled " All Of The Miles " . Recorded in Nashville in January of this year there is nothing country about this EP. Taking her music into a much more confident sounding direction with lusher instrumentation and layered vocals, we're incredibly excited to see where this project takes her. Lightyear::All Of [...]
A nice serving of dream pop from Lauren Zettler, of Brooklyn NY, better known as I Am Lightyear .