soldout.

Atlanta’s Tealights recently self-released their first E.P., Take Us By Sea, and it is hands and feet and heads and tails and faces and arms and all that, too, above and beyond the best, most forward-thinking thing I’ve heard in 2009. Glistening pop melodies and gorgeous boy/girl vocal-interplay combined with clued-in stuttering electronics and classical instrumentation-I swear if there was a Tigerbeat for electropop Tealights would be cover stars.

When they were in NY over the past weekend for two shows-one at Matchless in Brooklyn which sadly couldn’t happen because of van issues (“take us by sea”, indeed!) and one at The Tank in Manhattan, Tealights filmed their first-ever acoustic take on my favorite of their songs, “Passport”…on a couch in a Manhattan apartment.

Thus is born soldout’s “Apartment Stories”-one great band, one great song stripped down to its essence, in an apartment, nothing plugged in instrument-wise. And, kicking it off? Tealights, with “Passport”

Tealights: Passport (Apartment Stories session)

Visit Tealights’ website and online store for spiffy shirts, EPs (produced by Snowden’s Jordan Jeffares) and other Tealight love, and watch soldout for more live Tealights film.