Anthemic pop-rockers reach for the stars.
Having drawn comparisons to the likes of Coldplay and Kygo, rising Dublin quartet State Lights return with a fittingly buoyant anthem.
‘Open Your Arms’ doubles down on the band’s affinity for searching pop music, while also ensuring that there’s a healthy supply of wistful emotion in the mix, too.
The accompanying video is a love letter to creativity and liberation, perhaps best personified by footage of Panti Bliss leading a packed Dublin Castle crowd in cheers on the day of the Marriage Referendum result in 2015.
Check it all out below.
Clip via State Lights
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