# MENSA DEATHSQUAD Erupt with Catharsis of New Single “Light”

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- Published: 2021-11-16T15:30:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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**“Light” by Mensa Deathsquad**

**MENSA DEATHSQUAD**
**Erupt with Passionate Catharsison New Single “Light”

**NOVEMBER 15, 2021 (New York, NY) **— “‘**Light**’ is exactly how I sound singing
over the ragged edge of a much-needed meltdown,” reveals **Brandon Phillips**, mastermind
behind electronic darkwave band MENSA DEATHSQUAD, about his latest single, out today.
The longtime musician, songwriter, and member of bands **The Gadjits**, **The Architects**,
and **Other Americans**, released a monstrous new full-length, **_Cyclist_**, earlier
this year and is coming back with an emotional honesty that can’t be bargained with
or swept under the rug – it demands to be known and it demands your surrender.

**Listen to “Light” below**

Mensa Deathsquad - Light (SINGLE STREAM)

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**MENSA DEATHSQUAD “Light”**

“‘Light’ was the first song I wrote with musician **Barb Morrison **(_Antony and
The Johnsons, Blondie, Deborah Harry_)** **as my music mentor and it set the tone
for both where I wanted to go with my new music and how Barb and I would work together,”
explains Brandon. That tone embodies pulsing club kicks and throbbing waves of synthesizers
slamming headlong into jagged post-punk guitars and emotionally raw vocals about
a desire so powerful that simply admitting it’s existence would set fire to heaven
and earth.

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**Mensa Deathsquad (Brandon Phillips)**

This is the first release of a larger work coming from Mensa Deathsquad in 2022 
and it lays bare the passionate catharsis of Brandon’s new writing direction. “Barb
was like, ‘Write a song, but don’t think about it… Just fucking sing.’ So I threw
together a beat and hit RECORD and started singing words into the mic,” says Brandon.“
Now, I cannot emphasize enough how _absolutely agonizing _this was. Even in an empty
studio, my inner-critic was erupting with this withering rage like, ‘You fucking
idiot! You have _nothing written down_!’ I keep singing this bit over and over and
I start sweating… So I just string some words together in my head and hit RECORD.
Without thinking about it at all in that one take I delivered the line exactly as
you hear it now – the lyric, the melody, the whisper part – all unplanned. When 
I listened back, I choked up. I started bawling like you would not believe, but 
this voice in my head was like, ‘Don’t you dare stop now!’ So I blew my nose and
finished the song and swore to myself not to change a single note.”

“**Light**” by **Mensa Deathsquad **is out now on all DSPs.

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