Floret Loret returns to Deadbeats with Lightsplinter

A sword forged from light, built to hold back a darkness settled inside a cave that gives the record its name, supplies the narrative behind Lightsplinter. The four-track EP landed December 3rd, out via Deadbeats. It opens on Doves, a spacious, half-ceremonial pass through vintage science-fiction textures, before three more tracks push through bruising low end and alien percussion; Lightsplinter, the closing title cut, pulls the record back down into something settled — a homecoming that closes the arc it opened on Doves.

Floret Loret has released music since 2017 and joined Deadbeats in 2019. Lightsplinter isn’t a first for that partnership: it follows Secluded Garden, the release directly before it on the label. Their last record anywhere, though, was Verdant Horizon.

Floret Loret is set to join Shlump’s upcoming tour, carrying the Lightsplinter material to audiences directly — the same run that opens in ceremony and, four tracks on, closes in something closer to rest.