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After some well-earned rest and relaxation, The Mystery Lights return with their most ambitious offering to date. With Wayne Gordon back in the producer’s chair, the group along with long-time label, Wick Records, prepare to release their third full-length, Purgatory. 

The Mystery Lights story begins in 2004 in the small town of Salinas California when friends Michael Brandon and Luis Alfonso – whose shared fondness for groups like The Mc5, VelvetUnderground, Dead Moon, and The Fall (to name a few) – joined forces to craft their own brand of unhinged rock and roll. From there they spent the better part of 10 years touring relentlessly before migrating to Queens, New York in 2014.

With a live show known for its raw, visceral energy and relentless assault – leaving little to no stoppage between songs – they barreled through countless NYC haunts and DIY venues, quickly amassing a fervent local following. The buzz soon caught the attention of Daptone Records execs who were in the beginning stages of launching a new rock-centric imprint, Wick Records. Impressed by the groups’ musicianship, groove, endless supply of energy, and understanding of musical history, The Mystery Lights were quickly signed to Wick. Though a rock band at heart, the parallels to what Daptone Records had traditionally looked for in their Soul artists was undeniable.

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Based in Oshawa, Ontario. Freddie has carved out his own lane in music, reaching a global audience with a combination of gritty lo-fi sounds, vintage samples, and lyrics that veer between the bleakly philosophical and humorously macabre. Bold and daring, Freddie’s music takes inspiration from the horrorcore and dark trap of ’90s Memphis, TN — something he discovered by accident during his teenage years — as well the intensity of metal bands like Korn and Meshuggah.

In 2020, Freddie released Suffer, his debut EP for RCA Records, created in collaboration with his ongoing production partner Ryan C. Evolving his persona even further, in 2022 he released his debut album Freddie’s Inferno, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Spotify Global Charts.  Flashing a predilection for distortion and red-lining bass, the young rapper leverages extreme imagery, damning metaphors, and creative threats to embolden a rap persona — part Freddie, part Hannibal Lecter, and part Lucifer. The album spawned the runaway hit “Limbo.” Now RIAA Platinum-certified (with over 315 million streams on Spotify), the ground-shaking track resonated particularly with the online gaming community, inspiring a deluge of fan-made Call of Duty videos that further propelled the track’s consumption.

As his star ascended — and his catalog amassed over 2 billion streams — Freddie took to the road. He whipped fans into a frenzy during his set at 2023’s Rolling Loud Miami; followed that up with a 20-city headlining tour powered by Rolling Loud; and joined $uicide Boy$ on their sold-out arena tour, joining them on the iconic Madison Square Garden stage to perform their collab “Provolone and Heroin.”

Following a yearlong break, Cease & Disintegrate is the launchpad for what’s destined to be Freddie Dredd’s biggest year yet, featuring extensive live dates as well as plenty of new music.

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However, he found unlikely inspiration for his own music in the LA River. “Most assume the LA River is manmade,” he explains, “it is not. Its current concrete form is the result of humans trying to improve it. Like a bee building a hive, it’s our nature to fortify, eternalize. But what is our responsibility now that we’ve completely dominated the natural world? Does being a good person mean living in opposition of our instincts?”

This observation provided the spark for I know trash people who keep the oceans clean, his debut album out January 28.

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