Though he is a published writer, orchestral composer, visual artist, and part time builder-of-robots, his first and fiercest love is making a blend of intimate songwriting, esoteric theory, and delicate electronics. Lindley self-produced Oh Light, his second full length effort, recording and mixing the album over the course of a month in a closet in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. Oh Light is being released by Sounds Super Recordings on July 20th, preceded by a June 29th digital release.

His music is warm, jagged bedroom folk for the post-industrial crash. You'll hear the influence of Will Oldham and Devendra Banhart here, but also Harry Smith's field recordings, Gram Parsons, and musicians like Squarepusher and Autechre. The songs on Oh Light, come off as straightforward and confessional despite harboring complex polyrhythms, asymmetric meters, strange harmonic pallindromes, and sections of 4-part contrapuntal writing. Songs like "Fox and His Friends" (inspired by the final, crushing scene in the Fassbinder film of the same name) and "Scrappy" (in part addressed to Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel) use the format of simple guitar songs to affect an intimate and direct tone; both play with ideas of the specialness, power, exploitation, and guilt among friends and partners. On the other hand, "Every Epiphany" employs shifting layers of processed vocal and instrumental samples to explore the moment of epiphany found in the midst of extreme physical or emotional trauma. Lindley pointedly played, recorded and processed all of the sounds on Oh Light himself, including multiple guitars (plucked and bowed), mbira, flute, punch-card music-box, toy percussion, and hundreds of layers of vocals.